Genesis 26:1:6Gen.26.1.W6PAT

הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן

harishon

the first

Transliteration
ha-ri-SHON
Extended
hah-rih-SHOHN
IPA
/haː.ri.ˈʃoːn/

Meaning by language

English
the first
French
la première
Spanish
la primera
Portuguese
a primeira
German
die erste
Russian
первый
Arabic-Simplified
الأولى
Hindi
पहला
Chinese-Simplified
先前的
Korean
Indonesian
yang pertama
Bengali
প্রথম
Tagalog
ang una
Swahili
ya kwanza
Amharic
የመጀመሪያው
Yoruba
àkọ́kọ́
Igbo
nke mbụ
Twi
a edi kan no
Ewe
gbãtɔ

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Result
הָ + רִא + שׁ֔וֹן
ha + ri + shon
harishon

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Nun Sofitfinal form of Nun — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-ri-SHON

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ha-ra-AV ha-ri-SHON

  3. clause

    va-ye-HI ra-AV ba-A-rets mil-le-VAD ha-ra-AV ha-ri-SHON a-SHER ha-YA bi-MEI av-ra-HAM

  4. sentence

    va-ye-HI ra-AV ba-A-rets mil-le-VAD ha-ra-AV ha-ri-SHON a-SHER ha-YA bi-MEI av-ra-HAM va-YE-lekh yits-KHAK EL-a-vi-ME-lekh ME-lekh-pe-lish-TIM ge-ra-RA

In contextGenesis 26:1

famine there was in the land besides the famine the first which was in the days of Abraham Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar

About this coordinate

Genesis 26:1:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 26:1, so the Hebrew word הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן (harishon) 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 Gen.26.1.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.26.1.W6.S1) and character.