Deuteronomy 18:4:5Deut.18.4.W5PAT
וְרֵאשִׁ֛ית
vehrehsheet
“and first”
- Transliteration
- veh-reh-SHEET
- Extended
- veh-reh-SHEET
- IPA
- /vəreˈʃit/
Meaning by language
- English
- and first
- French
- et premier
- Spanish
- y primero
- Portuguese
- e primeiro
- German
- und erste
- Russian
- и первый
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَأَوَّلُ
- Hindi
- और पहला
- Chinese-Simplified
- 和初
- Korean
- 그리고 첫
- Indonesian
- dan pertama
- Bengali
- এবং প্রথম
- Tagalog
- at una
- Swahili
- na la kwanza
- Amharic
- እና የመጀመሪያ
- Yoruba
- ati akọkọ
- Igbo
- na nke mbụ
- Twi
- na nea edi kan
- Ewe
- gbã
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וְ + רֵא + שִׁ֛ית
↓
veh + reh + sheet
↓
vehrehsheet
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
veh-reh-SHEET
- sentence
reh-SHEET de-GAN-kha ti-ROSH-kha veh-yits-ha-RE-kha veh-reh-SHEET GEZ TSOHN-kha ti-TEN-lo
In context — Deuteronomy 18:4
give him firstfruits your grain your wine and your oil and first fleece your sheep
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 18:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Deuteronomy 18:4, so the Hebrew word וְרֵאשִׁ֛ית (vehrehsheet) 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 Deut.18.4.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.18.4.W5.S1) and character.