Genesis 48:17:16Gen.48.17.W16PAT

עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ

alrosh

onto the head of

Transliteration
al-ROSH
Extended
ahl-ROHSH
IPA
/ʕal.ˈroːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
onto the head of
French
sur la tête de
Spanish
sobre la cabeza de
Portuguese
sobre a cabeça de
German
auf den Kopf von
Russian
на голову
Arabic-Simplified
على رأس
Hindi
सिर पर
Chinese-Simplified
到头上
Korean
머리 위로
Indonesian
ke atas kepala
Bengali
মাথার উপর
Tagalog
sa ulo ni
Swahili
juu ya kichwa cha
Amharic
በራስ ላይ
Yoruba
sí orí ti
Igbo
n'isi
Twi
ti so
Ewe
le ta dzi

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Result
עַל + רֹ֥אשׁ
al + rosh
alrosh

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Lamedl as in law
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

    al-ROSH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    al-ROSH me-na-SHE

  3. clause

    va-yit-MOKH yad-a-VEEV le-ha-SIR o-TAH me-AL rosh-ef-ra-YIM al-ROSH me-na-SHE

  4. sentence

    va-YAR yo-SEF ki-ya-SHIT a-VEEV yad-ye-mi-NO al-ROSH ef-ra-YIM va-YE-ra be-ei-NAV va-yit-MOKH yad-a-VEEV le-ha-SIR o-TAH me-AL rosh-ef-ra-YIM al-ROSH me-na-SHE

In contextGenesis 48:17

{And} {he} saw Joseph that laid his father his right hand on the head of Ephraim {And} it was bad in his eyes he grasped the hand of his father to remove it from upon the head of Ephraim onto the head of Manasseh

About this coordinate

Genesis 48:17:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Genesis 48:17, so the Hebrew word עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ (alrosh) 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.48.17.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.48.17.W16.S1) and character.