Proverbs 22:2:1Prov.22.2.W1TAB
עָשִׁ֣יר
ashir
“the rich”
- Transliteration
- a-SHIR
- Extended
- aa-SHEER
- IPA
- /ʕaː.ˈʃiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the rich
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHIR
- clause
a-SHIR va-RASH nif-GA-shu
- sentence
a-SHIR va-RASH nif-GA-shu o-SE khul-LAM Ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The verse uses synonymous parallelism by aligning ashir {עָשִׁ֣יר | ʿă-šîr} ‘rich’ with varash {וָרָ֣שׁ | wə-rā-š} ‘poor’, linked by the Niphal perfect nifgeshu {נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ | nip̄-gā-šū} ‘they met’, which emphasizes encounter between social classes.
Root and etymology
ʿ-sh-rʿayin–shin–resh
“to be rich”
In context — Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor meet; the LORD is the Maker of them all.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 22:2:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Proverbs 22:2, so the Hebrew word עָשִׁ֣יר (ashir) 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 Prov.22.2.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.22.2.W1.S1) and character.