Numbers 14:36:2Num.14.36.W2TAB
אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥ח
ashershalakh
“whom had sent”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER-SHA-lakh
- Extended
- a-SHEHR-SHAH-lakh
- IPA
- /ʔaˈʃɛr-ʃaˈlaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- whom had sent
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 | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER-SHA-lakh
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER-SHA-lakh mo-SHEH
- clause
ve-ha-a-na-SHIM a-SHER-SHA-lakh mo-SHEH la-TUR ET-ha-A-retz
- sentence
ve-ha-a-na-SHIM a-SHER-SHA-lakh mo-SHEH la-TUR ET-ha-A-retz va-ya-SHU-vu va-ya-LI-nu a-LAV ET-KOL-ha-e-DAH le-ho-TZI di-BAH al-ha-A-retz
Exegesis
The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ introduces a relative clause in which the Qal perfect shalach {שָׁלַ֥ח | šā-laḥ} ‘sent’ governs Mosheh {מֹשֶׁ֖ה | mō-šé} as subject and the Qal infinitive construct latur {לָת֣וּר | lā-tûr} ‘to scout’ indicating purpose.
Root and etymology
ש־ל־ח
“to send”
In context — Numbers 14:36
And the men whom Moses had sent to explore the land returned and provoked all the congregation to complain against him by spreading a bad report about the land.
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:36:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Numbers 14:36, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥ח (ashershalakh) 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.14.36.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.36.W2.S1) and character.