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
- מַרְאָשָׁהmarʼâshâh · H4761properly, headship, i.e. (plural for collective) dominion
- רֵאשׁrêʼsh · H7217the head; figuratively, the sum
- רֹאשׁrôʼsh · H7219a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
- רֹאשׁRôʼsh · H7220Rosh, the name of an Israelite and of a foreign nation
- רִאשָׁהriʼshâh · H7221a beginning
- רֹאשָׁהrôʼshâh · H7222the head
- רֵאשִׁיתrêʼshîyth · H7225the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
- רַאֲשֹׁתraʼăshôth · H7226a pillow (being for the head)
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.
See every passage
- Genesis 16 verses
- Exodus 25 verses
- Leviticus 38 verses
- Numbers 36 verses
- Deuteronomy 16 verses
- Joshua 13 verses
- Judges 27 verses
- 1 Samuel 21 verses
- 2 Samuel 25 verses
- 1 Kings 20 verses
- 2 Kings 16 verses
- 1 Chronicles 63 verses
- 2 Chronicles 20 verses
- Ezra 13 verses
- Nehemiah 16 verses
- Esther 5 verses
- Job 13 verses
- Psalms 32 verses
- Proverbs 10 verses
- Ecclesiastes 3 verses
- Song of Solomon 7 verses
- Isaiah 26 verses
- Jeremiah 13 verses
- Lamentations 7 verses
- Ezekiel 38 verses
- Daniel 1 verses
- Hosea 2 verses
- Joel 3 verses
- Amos 6 verses
- Obadiah 1 verses
- Jonah 3 verses
- Micah 5 verses
- Nahum 1 verses
- Habakkuk 2 verses
- Zechariah 4 verses
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).