Judges 18:29:13Judg.18.29.W13TAB
לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃
larishona
“at first”
- Transliteration
- la-ri-sho-NA
- Extended
- laa-rih-shoh-NAA
- IPA
- /laː.ri.ʃoˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- at first
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
la-ri-sho-NA
- clause
ve-u-LAM LA-yish shem-ha-IIR la-ri-sho-NA
- sentence
va-yik-re-U shem-ha-IIR DAN be-SHEM DAN a-vi-HEM a-SHER yu-LAD le-yis-ra-EL ve-u-LAM LA-yish shem-ha-IIR la-ri-sho-NA
Exegesis
The adversative veulam {וְאוּלָ֛ם | wəʾūlām} ‘but/however’ introduces contrast, and the temporal phrase la-Yish shem-ha-ir larishonah {לַיִשׁ שֵׁם־הָעִ֖יר לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה | laYîš šēm hāʿîr lārîʾšōnāh} ‘to Laish the name of the city formerly’ highlights the prior designation.
In context — Judges 18:29
They named the city Dan , after Dan their father who was born to Israel; but the city had previously been called Laish .
About this coordinate
Judges 18:29:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Judges 18:29, so the Hebrew word לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ (larishona) 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 Judg.18.29.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.29.W13.S1) and character.