Hey guys, maybe this is a stupid question, and will get answered as I progress through the course, but it's making my head hurt... The Hebrew word, בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית, is confusing me. It is the first word in Genesis, but I have noticed two things when listening to the word... The Bet ב which is the first letter is not pronounced and the yod י does not appear to be pronounced. Can someone help me understand what I am missing? Thanks, Matt
- Hi Matthew. If you don't mind me attempting to answer. Here goes: 1) בראשית is made up of the preposition ב and the word ראשית. 2) What you have noticed in the Logos Word study is the "lemma" ראשית (basic word derived from the root). If you noticed in the Word study menu (when you right click on the word), you will see ב (above ראשית) as also one of the "word" making up the first word בראשית. The word study only pronounces the "lemma", not the word in Genesis 1:1. 3) So the word ב in בראשית is pronounced as you can notice the shva at the bottom of the letter. 4) The י is a part of the hireq yod, and is thus a part of the sound "i" (as in 'machine') 5) What is "silent" is the א in this word. Hope this helps :-)
- Thanks John, the info with the hireq yod, I believe, is still two lessons from what I just finished. So thank you for helping to understand what I'm seeing.
- A pleasure. Yes, in Unit 2, under Reading Genesis 1:1, you will have Dr. Futato mention more on the word.