Deuteronomy 33:16:8Deut.33.16.W8PAT

לְרֹ֣אשׁ

lehrosh

to the head

Transliteration
leh-ROSH
Extended
leh-ROHSH
IPA
/lə.rˈoːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
to the head
French
sur la tête
Spanish
sobre la cabeza
Portuguese
sobre a cabeça
German
auf den Kopf
Russian
на голову
Arabic-Simplified
إلى الرأس
Hindi
सिर पर
Chinese-Simplified
到头上
Korean
머리에
Indonesian
ke kepala
Bengali
মাথায়
Tagalog
sa ulo
Swahili
juu ya kichwa
Amharic
ወደ ራስ
Yoruba
sí orí
Igbo
n'isi
Twi
so ti
Ewe
ɖe ta

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Result
לְ + רֹ֣אשׁ
leh + rosh
lehrosh

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
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

    leh-ROSH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    leh-ROSH yo-SEF

  3. clause

    tah-vo-TAA leh-ROSH yo-SEF oo-leh-kad-KOHD neh-ZEER eh-KHAV

  4. sentence

    oo-mim-MEH-ged EH-rets oo-meh-loh-AA oo-reh-TSOHN shohkh-NEE SE-neh tah-vo-TAA leh-ROSH yo-SEF oo-leh-kad-KOHD neh-ZEER eh-KHAV

In contextDeuteronomy 33:16

and from the best earth and its fullness and the favor dweller bush come to the head Joseph and on the crown prince of his brothers

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 33:16:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Deuteronomy 33:16, so the Hebrew word לְרֹ֣אשׁ (lehrosh) 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.33.16.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.33.16.W8.S1) and character.