רֹאשׁrôʼsh

head

Pronunciation: roshe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7218

Meanings

1.

a. head, of human being (Genesis 40:16; Genesis 40:17; Judges 5:30)

b. head, of animals (Genesis 3:15; 2 Samuel 3:8; 2 Kings 6:25)

2.

a. top (Genesis 8:5; Exodus 19:20; Exodus 24:17)

b. height (Job 22:12)

3.

a. head, = chief (man) (Judges 10:18; Judges 11:8; Judges 11:9)

b. = chief (city) (Joshua 11:10; Isaiah 7:3; Isaiah 7:8)

c. chief nation (Jeremiah 31:7)

d. = chief (place, position) (1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Kings 21:9; 1 Kings 21:12)

e. chief priest (2 Kings 25:18; Jeremiah 52:24; 2 Chronicles 19:11)

f. especially = head of a family (Exodus 6:14; Numbers 7:2; Numbers 17:18)

4.

a. head, = front, leader's place (Micah 2:13; 2 Chronicles 20:27; Amos 6:7)

b. beginning, of time (Judges 7:19; Lamentations 2:19; Isaiah 40:21)

c. heads, of things (Genesis 2:10; Proverbs 8:26)

5. chief, choicest, best (Ezekiel 27:22; Exodus 30:23; Song of Solomon 4:14)

6. head, = division of army, company, band (Judges 7:16; Judges 7:20; Judges 9:34)

7. = sum (Exodus 30:12; Numbers 1:2; Numbers 1:49)

8. see, further, other phrases are (Psalms 27:6; Psalms 3:4; Psalms 110:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 599 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
  • Genesis 3:15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”
  • Genesis 8:5 Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
  • Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
  • Genesis 28:12 As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
  • Genesis 28:18 The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).