Leviticus 13:29:7Lev.13.29.W7TAB

בְּרֹ֖אשׁ

berosh

on the head

Transliteration
be-ROSH
Extended
beh-ROHSH
IPA
/bə.ˈroːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
on the head

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Result
בְּ + רֹ֖אשׁ
be + rosh
berosh

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    be-ROSH

  2. clause

    be-ROSH O be-za-KAN

  3. sentence

    veh-EESH O ish-SHAH kee-yeh-YEH VO NA-ga be-ROSH O be-za-KAN

Exegesis

The locative bo {ב֖וֹ | bō} “in him or her” governs nega {נָ֑גַע | nā-gāʿ}, which is then specified by the parallel prepositional phrases berosh {בְּרֹ֖אשׁ | bə-rṓ-š} and bezakan {בְזָקָֽן | bə-zā-qān} linked by the disjunction ʾō {א֥וֹ | ʾō}. The Hebrew imperfect here allows both a stative condition (formal “has”) and the onset of a condition (dynamic “develops”), aligning with the law’s precision in location.

Root and etymology

ר־א־שׁ

head, top

In contextLeviticus 13:29

If a man or a woman has a sore on the head or on the beard .

About this coordinate

Leviticus 13:29:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Leviticus 13:29, so the Hebrew word בְּרֹ֖אשׁ (berosh) 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 Lev.13.29.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.29.W7.S1) and character.