Numbers 14:40:4Num.14.40.W4TAB
אֶל־רֹאשׁ־הָהָ֖ר
elroshhahar
“to the top of the hill”
- Transliteration
- el-ROSH-ha-HAR
- Extended
- el-ROHSH-hah-HAAR
- IPA
- /ʔelˈroːʃhaˈhaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the top of the hill
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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
el-ROSH-ha-HAR
- phraseyour reading level
va-ya-a-LU el-ROSH-ha-HAR
- clause
va-yash-KEE-mu ba-BO-ker va-ya-a-LU el-ROSH-ha-HAR le-MOR
- sentence
va-yash-KEE-mu ba-BO-ker va-ya-a-LU el-ROSH-ha-HAR le-MOR hi-NE-nu ve-a-LEE-nu el-ha-ma-KOM a-SHER-a-MAR Ye-ho-VAH kee kha-ta-NU
Exegesis
The construct rosh-hā-hār {רֹאשׁ־הָהָ֖ר | rōš-hā-hār} ‘top of the mountain’ establishes spatial focus.
Root and etymology
Rootresh-aleph-shin
“head, top”
In context — Numbers 14:40
And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain to say, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the LORD has spoken about, for we have sinned .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:40:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 14:40, so the Hebrew word אֶל־רֹאשׁ־הָהָ֖ר (elroshhahar) 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 Num.14.40.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.40.W4.S1) and character.