Genesis 28:19:8Gen.28.19.W8PAT
לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃
larishona
“formerly”
- Transliteration
- la-ri-sho-NA
- Extended
- lah-ree-shoh-NAA
- IPA
- /laː.ri.ʃoː.ˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- formerly
- French
- à l'origine
- Spanish
- al principio
- Portuguese
- a princípio
- German
- anfangs
- Russian
- прежде
- Arabic-Simplified
- أولا
- Hindi
- पहले
- Chinese-Simplified
- 起初
- Korean
- 처음에
- Indonesian
- mula-mula
- Bengali
- প্রথমে
- Tagalog
- noong una
- Swahili
- mwanzoni
- Amharic
- በመጀመሪያ
- Yoruba
- ní ìbẹ̀rẹ̀
- Igbo
- na mbụ
- Twi
- mfiase mu
- Ewe
- tsã
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
לָ + רִא + שֹׁ + נָֽה׃
↓
la + ri + sho + na
↓
larishona
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-ri-sho-NA
- clause
ve-u-LAM LUZ shem-ha-IR la-ri-sho-NA
- sentence
va-yik-RA et-shem-ha-ma-KOM ha-HU beit-EL ve-u-LAM LUZ shem-ha-IR la-ri-sho-NA
In context — Genesis 28:19
he called the name of the place that Bethel but Luz the name of the city formerly
About this coordinate
Genesis 28:19:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 28:19, so the Hebrew word לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ (larishona) 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.28.19.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.28.19.W8.S1) and character.