Leviticus 23:5:4Lev.23.5.W4TAB
עָשָׂ֛ר
asar
“ten”
- Transliteration
- a-SAR
- Extended
- aa-SAAR
- IPA
- /ʕaˈsaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- ten
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SAR
- phraseyour reading level
be-ar-ba-AH a-SAR
- clause
ba-KHO-desh ha-ri-SHON be-ar-ba-AH a-SAR la-KHO-desh BEIN ha-ar-ba-YIM
- sentence
ba-KHO-desh ha-ri-SHON be-ar-ba-AH a-SAR la-KHO-desh BEIN ha-ar-ba-YIM PE-sakh la-ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The numeric construction be-arbaah asar la-chodesh {בְּאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר לַחֹדֶשׁ | bə-ʾar-bā-ʿāh ʿā-ṣār la-ḥō-ḏeš} directly orders preposition + numeral + noun to yield an ordinal sense “on the fourteenth of the month.”
In context — Leviticus 23:5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, is the Passover to the LORD .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 23:5:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 23:5, so the Hebrew word עָשָׂ֛ר (asar) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Lev.23.5.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.23.5.W4.S1) and character.