Resh Definition

rĕsh
noun
The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ר)
Webster's New World

Origin of Resh

  • Hebrew rêš of Aramaic or Phoenician dialectal origin rℵš in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head").

    From Wiktionary

Resh Sentence Examples

  • Hence the head of the Babylonian Jews was the exilarch (in Aramaic Resh Galutha) .

  • The Jewish chief priest may be said to be the successor of the exilarch or resh galutha of the earlier period.

  • The seat of the exilarch or resh galutha was transferred from Pumbedita(Pumbeditha or Pombeditha) inBabylonia to Bagdad, which thus became the capital of oriental Judaism; from then to the present day the Jews have played no mean part in Bagdad.

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Words Starting With

RRERES

Words Ending With

HSHESH

Unscrambles

resh

Words Starting With R and Ending With H

Starts With R & Ends With HStarts With RE & Ends With HStarts With R & Ends With SH

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With R4 Letter Words Ending With H