Joel 2:23:16Joel.2.23.W16TAB
בָּרִאשׁוֹן׃
barishon
“as at first”
- Transliteration
- ba-ri-SHON
- Extended
- baa-rih-SHOHN
- IPA
- /baːriˈʃoːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- as at first
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| 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 | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-ri-SHON
- clause
va-yo-RED la-KHEM GE-shem mo-RE u-mal-KOSH ba-ri-SHON
- sentence
u-ve-NEI tsi-YON GI-lu ve-sim-KHU va-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-khem KI-NA-tan la-KHEM et-ha-MO-re lits-da-KA va-yo-RED la-KHEM GE-shem mo-RE u-mal-KOSH ba-ri-SHON
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive vayored {וַיּוֹרֶד | wa-yō-red} then transitions to the promise of rain; the meristic pairing of geshem {גֶּשֶׁם | ge-šêm} ‘rain’ and umalkosh {וּמַלְקוֹשׁ | u-mal-qōš} ‘latter rain’, along with the temporal particle barishon {בָּרִאשׁ֔וֹן | ba-rī-šôn} ‘as before’, intensifies the future blessing through parallelism. The English rendering preserves conjunctions, purpose clauses, and uses dash punctuation to reflect the cumulative promise.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph–shin
“fire, burning”
In context — Joel 2:23
You sons of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the former rain for righteousness , and He causes the rain to come down for you—the former rain and the latter rain as at the first.
About this coordinate
Joel 2:23:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Joel 2:23, so the Hebrew word בָּרִאשׁוֹן׃ (barishon) 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 Joel.2.23.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Joel.2.23.W16.S1) and character.