1 Samuel 13:18:71 Sam.13.18.W7TAB
וְהָרֹ֨אשׁ
veharosh
“and the head or the chief”
- Transliteration
- ve-ha-ROSH
- Extended
- veh-haa-ROHSH
- IPA
- /vəhaˈroːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the head or the chief
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| 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
ve-ha-ROSH
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ha-ROSH e-KHAD yif-NE
- clause
ve-ha-ROSH e-KHAD yif-NE DE-rekh ha-ge-VUL ha-nish-KAF al-GE ha-tse-vo-IM ha-mid-ba-RA
- sentence
ve-ha-ROSH e-KHAD yif-ne DE-rekh BET kho-RON ve-ha-ROSH e-KHAD yif-NE DE-rekh ha-ge-VUL ha-nish-KAF al-GE ha-tse-vo-IM ha-mid-ba-RA
Exegesis
The verse opens with the coordinated nominal phrase ve-harosh echad {וְהָרֹאשׁ אֶחָד | wə-hā-rō-š ʾe-ḥād} ‘and-the-chief one’, introducing two parallel troop divisions.
Root and etymology
r-ʾ-šresh–aleph–shin
“head”
In context — 1 Samuel 13:18
And one company turned toward the road to Beth Horon, and one company turned toward the road to the border that overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness .
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 13:18:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 13:18, so the Hebrew word וְהָרֹ֨אשׁ (veharosh) 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 Sam.13.18.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.13.18.W7.S1) and character.