1 Chronicles 16:5:21 Chr.16.5.W2TAB
הָרֹ֖אשׁ
harosh
“the head or the chief”
- Transliteration
- ha-ROSH
- Extended
- haa-ROHSH
- IPA
- /haːˈroːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the head or the chief
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-ROSH
- phraseyour reading level
a-SAF ha-ROSH
- clause
a-SAF ha-ROSH u-mish-ne-HU ze-khar-YA
- sentence
a-SAF ha-ROSH u-mish-ne-HU ze-khar-YA ye-i-EL u-she-mi-ra-MOT vi-khi-EL u-mat-tit-YA ve-e-li-AV u-ve-na-YA-hu ve-o-VED e-DOM vi-i-EL bikh-LE ne-va-LIM u-ve-khin-no-ROT ve-a-SAF bam-tsil-ta-YIM mash-mi-A
Exegesis
The verse employs an asyndetic list, emphasizing Asaph’s primacy as harōš {הָרֹאשׁ | hā-rōš} ‘chief’ followed by ū-mišnêhû {וּמִשְׁנֵהוּ | ū-mišnê-hû} ‘second in command’. The series of musicians is connected by the conjunction wâv, reflecting coordination without repetitive conjunctions among names.
Root and etymology
r-’-šresh–aleph–shin
“head, chief”
In context — 1 Chronicles 16:5
Asaph was the chief , and his second was Zechariah; Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel played the lyres and the harps, and Asaph sounded the cymbals .
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 16:5:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Chronicles 16:5, so the Hebrew word הָרֹ֖אשׁ (harosh) 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 1 Chr.16.5.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.16.5.W2.S1) and character.