Numbers 13:27:5Num.13.27.W5TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu
- clause
va-ye-sap-ru-LO va-yo-MRU BA-nu el-ha-A-retz a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu
- sentence
va-ye-sap-ru-LO va-yo-MRU BA-nu el-ha-A-retz a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu ve-GAM za-VAT kha-LAV ud-VASH HI ve-ZE-PIR-yah
Exegesis
The perfect banu {בָּאנּוּ | bā-ʾan-nū} ‘we came’ marks a completed arrival into the direct object el-haaretz {אֶל־הָאָרֶץ | el-hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘the land’, which is defined by the restrictive relative clause asher shlach-tanu {אֲשֶׁר שְׁלַחְתָּנוּ | ʾă-šer šə-la-ḥtā-nū} ‘which you sent us’.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ר
“to be happy, blessed”
In context — Numbers 13:27
And they recounted to him and said, “We have come to the land you sent us to, and it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:27:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Numbers 13:27, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֣ר (asher) 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 Num.13.27.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.27.W5.S1) and character.