Genesis 11:5:6Gen.11.5.W6PAT

אֲשֶׁ֥ר

asher

which

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔa.ˈʃɛr/

Meaning by language

English
which
French
que
Spanish
que
Portuguese
que
German
die
Russian
которые
Arabic-Simplified
التي
Hindi
जो
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
Indonesian
yang
Bengali
যে
Tagalog
na
Swahili
ambazo
Amharic
Yoruba
ti
Igbo
nke
Twi
a
Ewe
si

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Result
אֲ + שֶׁ֥ר
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. phraseyour reading level

    a-SHER ba-NU

  3. clause

    a-SHER ba-NU be-NEI ha-a-DAM

  4. sentence

    va-YE-red Ye-ho-VAH li-re-OT et-ha-IR ve-et-ha-mig-DAL a-SHER ba-NU be-NEI ha-a-DAM

In contextGenesis 11:5

LORD {And} descended to look at the city and the tower which sons of humanity built

About this coordinate

Genesis 11:5:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 11:5, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֥ר (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 Gen.11.5.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.5.W6.S1) and character.