Job 20:6:4Job.20.6.W4TAB
וְ֝רֹאשׁ֗וֹ
verosho
“and his head”
- Transliteration
- ve-ro-SHO
- Extended
- veh-roh-SHOH
- IPA
- /vəroˈʔoːʃoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and his head
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ro-SHO
- clause
ve-ro-SHO la-V ya-GI-a
- sentence
im-ya-a-LE la-sha-MA-yim si-O ve-ro-SHO la-V ya-GI-a
Exegesis
The vav-linked second line, verosho {וְרֹאשׁוֹ | wərōšô} ‘and his head’, creates tight poetic parallelism with the first line, while laav {לָעָב | lāʿāb} ‘to the cloud’ functions as a second height-marker, intensifying the hyperbole (“heavens” paired with “cloud”).
Root and etymology
consonantsResh–Aleph–Shin
“head, top”
In context — Job 20:6
If his height ascends to the heavens and his head reaches the clouds .
About this coordinate
Job 20:6:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Job 20:6, so the Hebrew word וְ֝רֹאשׁ֗וֹ (verosho) 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 Job.20.6.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.20.6.W4.S1) and character.