בראשית

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Hebrew

Etymology

From the opening phrase of the first book of Torah: בְּ־ (b'-, “in”) + רֵאשִׁית (reishít, “beginning”), literally “in the beginning”.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

בְּ רֵאשִׁית • (bereshít)

in the beginning, at first

Synonyms

תחילה (tḥilá)

Proper noun

בְּ רֵאשִׁית • (bereshít) m

Genesis, the Book of Genesis: the first book of the Jewish and Christian Bibles.

Synonyms

(Book of Genesis): סֵפֶר בְּרֵאשִׁית (séfer bereshít)

Derived terms

בראשית רבה (bereshít rabá)
סֵפֶר בְּרֵאשִׁית (séfer bereshít)
בְּרֵאשִׁיתִי (bereshití)
מִבְּרֵאשִׁית (mibereshít)

Further reading

בראשית on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Yiddish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew בראשית.

Proper noun

בראשית • (breyshes) m

Book of Genesis

Noun

בראשית • (breyshes) m

genesis

Derived terms

בראשיתדיק (breyshesdik, “primeval”)

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