Show Notes
א-שׁ-ר (ʾalef–šin–resh) / ي–س–ر (yāʾ–sīn–rāʾ)
Happiness; go straight; go on
In the Hebrew Bible: ʾešer, happiness · ʾašer, Asher · ʾašerah, grove. Compare · ʾašar, go straight
In the Qurʾan: yasīr, easy · yassara, We have made easy · yusr, ease · maysir, and [the] games of chance
Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. at the fāʾ: weak-letter interchange; ḥurūf al-ṣafīr, at the ʿayn: sīn answering šin.
Passages
- Numbers 1:13: Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
- Exodus 1:4: Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
- Joshua 19:24: The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
- John 20:29: Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me,you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
- Matthew 5:4: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Luke 1:48: for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
- Sūrat al-Muddaththir سورة المدثر “The Cloaked One” 74:10: Not of ease, for disbelievers.
- Sūrat al-ʾInshiqāq سورة الإنشقاق “The Sundering” 84:8: He truly will receive an easy reckoning
- Sūrat al-Sharḥ سورة الشرح “The Relief” 94:5: But lo! with hardship goeth ease,
Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.
The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.
What is Triliteral Root of the Day?
Every day, one Semitic triliteral root heard in three scriptures: the root in Hebrew and Arabic, how it functions, and a passage from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan, read in the original languages with the English. Two or three minutes a day, from OCABS on the Ephesus School Network.