Proverbs 22:7:1Prov.22.7.W1TAB
עָ֭שִׁיר
ashir
“a rich person”
- Transliteration
- a-SHIR
- Extended
- aa-SHEER
- IPA
- /ʕaːˈʃiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- a rich person
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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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHIR
- clause
a-SHIR be-ra-SHIM yim-SHOL
- sentence
a-SHIR be-ra-SHIM yim-SHOL ve-E-ved lo-VEH le-ISH mal-VEH
Exegesis
In the first, the noun ashir {עָשִׁיר | ʿāšîr} ‘rich person’ acts as subject with the prepositional phrase berashim {בְּרָשִׁים | bə-rāšîm} ‘over the poor’ marking its object.
Root and etymology
ʿ-š-rʿê-šā-r
“to have wealth”
In context — Proverbs 22:7
A rich person rules over the poor, and a borrower is a slave to a lender .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 22:7:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Proverbs 22:7, so the Hebrew word עָ֭שִׁיר (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.22.7.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.22.7.W1.S1) and character.