Genesis 34:27:7Gen.34.27.W7PAT

אֲשֶׁ֥ר

asher

because

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

Meaning by language

English
because
French
parce que
Spanish
porque
Portuguese
porque
German
weil
Russian
потому что
Arabic-Simplified
لِأَنَّهُمْ
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
elabena

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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 tim-me-U

  3. clause

    a-SHER tim-me-U a-kho-TAM

  4. sentence

    be-NEI ya-a-KOV ba-U al-ha-kha-la-LIM va-ya-VOZ-zu ha-IR a-SHER tim-me-U a-kho-TAM

In contextGenesis 34:27

sons of Jacob came upon the slain they plundered the city because they had defiled their sister

About this coordinate

Genesis 34:27:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 34:27, 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.34.27.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.34.27.W7.S1) and character.