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resh: r Rāʾ (ر) french r ר׳ reish with a geresh: Ghayn (غ) Abu Ghosh (أَبُو غوش) Standard simplified: ר׳ and ע׳ ; however, ר׳ is proscribed by the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Another precise proscribed transcription is גֿ ; in some cases of established usage, a ג with no diacritics is used.
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 ...
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."
The "peculiar" resh [r] before or after Lamed or Nun, any of the three being vocalized with simple sheva and resh after zayin ז, daleth ד, samekh ס, sin שׂ, taw ת, ṣade צ, ṭeth ט, any of them punctuated with simple sheva: יִשְׂרָאֵל [jisrɔˈʔel], עָרְלָה [ʕɔrˈlɔ].
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.
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.
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Guttural roots contain a guttural consonant (such as alef (א), hey (ה), het (ח), or ayin (ע) in any position; or resh (ר) as the second letter).Hey (ה) as the third root is usually a hollow root marker due to being a vowel spelling rather than one of any consonant, and is only considered a guttural root in the third position if historically pronounced.