Deuteronomy 28:20:18Deut.28.20.W18PAT

אֲשֶׁר

asher

because

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔaˈʃɛr/

Meaning by language

English
because
French
parce que
Spanish
porque
Portuguese
porque
German
weil
Russian
потому что
Arabic-Simplified
لأن
Hindi
क्योंकि
Chinese-Simplified
因为
Korean
왜냐하면
Indonesian
karena
Bengali
কারণ
Tagalog
sapagkat
Swahili
kwa sababu
Amharic
ምክንያቱም
Yoruba
nítorí pé
Igbo
n’ihi na
Twi
efisɛ
Ewe
leɖeŋ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
אֲ + שֶׁר
a + sher
asher

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-SHER

  2. sentence

    ye-sha-LAKH Ye-ho-VAH be-KHA et-ha-me-E-RAH et-ha-me-hu-MAH ve-et-ha-mig-E-ret be-KHOL-mish-LAKH ya-DE-kha a-SHER ta-a-SHEH ad hish-AM-de-kha ve-ad-ab-DE-kha ma-HER mip-NEI RO-a ma-al-LE-kha a-SHER a-zav-TA-ni

In contextDeuteronomy 28:20

LORD will send on you the curse the confusion and frustration in all your work that you do until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly because of evil your deeds because you have forsaken me

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 28:20:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Deuteronomy 28:20, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר (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 Deut.28.20.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.28.20.W18.S1) and character.