Genesis 40:5:16Gen.40.5.W16PAT

אֲשֶׁ֥ר

asher

who were

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

Meaning by language

English
who were
French
qui étaient
Spanish
que estaban
Portuguese
que estavam
German
die
Russian
которые были
Arabic-Simplified
اللَّذَانِ
Hindi
जो
Chinese-Simplified
就是
Korean
Indonesian
yang
Bengali
যারা
Tagalog
na
Swahili
waliokuwa
Amharic
የነበሩ
Yoruba
tí wọ́n wà
Igbo
ndị
Twi
a
Ewe
siwo

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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 a-su-RIM

  3. clause

    ham-mash-KE ve-ha-o-FE a-SHER le-ME-lekh mits-RA-yim a-SHER a-su-RIM be-VEIT ha-so-HAR

  4. sentence

    va-ya-khal-MU kha-LOM she-NEI-hem ISH kha-lo-MO be-LAI-la e-KHAD ISH ke-fi-te-RON kha-lo-MO ham-mash-KE ve-ha-o-FE a-SHER le-ME-lekh mits-RA-yim a-SHER a-su-RIM be-VEIT ha-so-HAR

In contextGenesis 40:5

dreamed a dream both of them each man his dream in the night one each man according to the interpretation of his dream the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt who were confined in the house of the prison

About this coordinate

Genesis 40:5:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Genesis 40:5, 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.40.5.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.40.5.W16.S1) and character.