Joshua 15:8:12Josh.15.8.W12TAB
אֶל־רֹ֣אשׁ
elrosh
“to the top”
- Transliteration
- el-ROSH
- Extended
- el-ROHSH
- IPA
- /ʔɛlˈ roːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the top
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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
el-ROSH
- phraseyour reading level
el-ROSH ha-HAR
- clause
ve-a-LA hag-VOOL el-ROSH ha-HAR a-SHER al-pe-NEI gei-hin-NOM ya-MAH a-SHER bik-TSEH E-mek-re-fa-IM tsa-FO-na
- sentence
ve-a-LA hag-VOOL GEI ven-hin-NOM el-KE-tef hai-vu-SI mi-NE-gev HI ye-ru-sha-LA-yim ve-a-LA hag-VOOL el-ROSH ha-HAR a-SHER al-pe-NEI gei-hin-NOM ya-MAH a-SHER bik-TSEH E-mek-re-fa-IM tsa-FO-na
Exegesis
The relative pronoun ’ă-šer {אֲשֶׁר | ’ă-šer} ‘which’ links rōš hā-har {רֹאשׁ הָהָר | rōš hā-har} ‘top of the hill’ to gē-hinnōm {גֵי־הִנֹּם | gē-hinnōm} ‘Valley of Hinnom,’ while the locative suffixes ‑yā-ma {יָמָה | yā-ma} and ‑ṣā-pō-nā {צָפוֹנָה | ṣā-pō-nā} on yamah and tsafonah supply westward and northward directions, preserving the Hebrew’s geographic progression in translation.
In context — Joshua 15:8
And the boundary rose through the Valley of Ben-Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite , at the southern edge marking Jerusalem, and then ascended to the top of the hill before the Valley of Hinnom, westward, ending at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim .
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:8:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Joshua 15:8, so the Hebrew word אֶל־רֹ֣אשׁ (elrosh) 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 Josh.15.8.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.8.W12.S1) and character.