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The letter dalet, along with the He (and very rarely Gimel) is used to represent the Names of God in Judaism. The letter He is used commonly, and the dalet is rarer. A good example is the keter (crown) of a tallit, which has the blessing for donning the tallit, and has the name of God usually represented by a dalet. A reason for this is that He ...
dalet: d Dāl (د) door ד׳ dalet with a geresh: Ḏāl (ذ) Dhu [a]l-Hijjah (ذو الحجة) Also used for English voiced th; Often a simple Dalet (ד) is written; ח heth: ẖ / h, ḥ, or h Ḥaʾ (ح) Non existent in English, pronounced like an "h" while contracting the pharynx: ח׳ heth with a geresh: Ḫāʾ (ﺥ) Sheikh ...
Resh is used in an Israeli phrase; after a child says something false, one may say "B'Shin Quf, Resh" (With Shin, Quf, Resh). These letters spell Sheqer, which is the Hebrew word for a lie. It would be akin to an English speaker saying "That's an L-I-E."
Because of the proximity of a dental consonant, resh was pronounced as an alveolar trill, as it still is in Sephardi Hebrew. There is still another pronunciation, affected by the addition of a dagesh in the Resh in certain words in the Bible, which indicates it was doubled [ʀː]: הַרְּאִיתֶם [haʀːĭʔiˈθɛm].
Be is a prepositional prefix, resh is a noun, "head". The definite article ha (i.e., the Hebrew equivalent of "the") before reshit is missing, but implied. [1] bara (בָּרָא ): "[he] created/creating". The word is in the masculine singular form, so that "he" is implied; this verb is used only for the God of Israel. [2]
A few instances of resh with dagesh are recorded in the Masoretic Text, as well as a few cases of aleph with dagesh, such as in Leviticus 23:17. The presence of a dagesh ḥazak or consonant-doubling in a word may be entirely morphological, or, as is often the case, is a lengthening to compensate for a deleted consonant.
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The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament ("HALOT") is a scholarly dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, which has partially supplanted Brown–Driver–Briggs.