Genesis 48:17:6Gen.48.17.W6PAT
עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ
alrosh
“on the head of”
- Transliteration
- al-ROSH
- Extended
- ahl-ROHSH
- IPA
- /ʕal.ˈroːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- on 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
- 在头上
- Korean
- 머리 위에
- Indonesian
- di atas kepala
- Bengali
- মাথার উপর
- Tagalog
- sa ulo ni
- Swahili
- juu ya kichwa cha
- Amharic
- በራስ ላይ
- Yoruba
- lórí orí ti
- Igbo
- n'isi
- Twi
- ti so
- Ewe
- le ta dzi
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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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The word
Word in context
- word
al-ROSH
- phraseyour reading level
al-ROSH ef-ra-YIM
- clause
va-YAR yo-SEF ki-ya-SHIT a-VEEV yad-ye-mi-NO al-ROSH ef-ra-YIM va-YE-ra be-ei-NAV
- 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 context — Genesis 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 48:17:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.48.17.W6.S1) and character.