Exodus 12:2:4Exod.12.2.W4PAT
רֹ֣אשׁ
rosh
“beginning of”
- Transliteration
- ROSH
- Extended
- ROHSH
- IPA
- /ˈroːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- beginning of
- French
- commencement de
- Spanish
- comienzo de
- Portuguese
- começo de
- German
- Anfang der
- Russian
- начало
- Arabic-Simplified
- بِدَايَةُ
- Hindi
- आरम्भ
- Chinese-Simplified
- 开始
- Korean
- 시작
- Indonesian
- awal dari
- Bengali
- শুরু
- Tagalog
- pasimula ng
- Swahili
- mwanzo wa
- Amharic
- መጀመሪያ የ
- Yoruba
- ìbẹ̀rẹ̀ àwọn
- Igbo
- mmalite nke
- Twi
- ahyɛaseɛ
- Ewe
- gɔmedzedze na
Alphabet Analysis
| 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 |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ROSH
- phraseyour reading level
ROSH kho-da-SHIM
- clause
ha-KHO-desh ha-ZEH la-KHEM ROSH kho-da-SHIM
- sentence
ha-KHO-desh ha-ZEH la-KHEM ROSH kho-da-SHIM ri-SHON HU la-KHEM le-khod-SHEI ha-sha-NA
In context — Exodus 12:2
the month this for you beginning of months first it for you for the months of the year
About this coordinate
Exodus 12:2:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Exodus 12:2, so the Hebrew word רֹ֣אשׁ (rosh) 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 Exod.12.2.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.12.2.W4.S1) and character.