Targum Molcho

Vowels & Reading · Sound Units, Stress, Meteg, and Maqaf

Final stress

RH-092HebrewMasoretic vocalization and word reading

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST

בָּרָא

Transliterationba-RA

Plain meaningcreated

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Final stress

Stress is where the voice lands most strongly in a word. In the ordinary reading of בָּרָא, the final sound unit receives the stress: ba-RA. Hebrew frequently stresses the final syllable, but not always.

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בָּרָא
ORIGINAL

RH-092

ba-RA
READING

Approved transliteration

created
MEANING

Hebrew

REMEMBER

Stress is the strong beat of the word.