רַאֲשֹׁתraʼăshôth

רֹאשׁ: head

Pronunciation: rah-ash-oth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7226

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)

רַאֲשׁוֺת: see מְרַאֲשׁוֺת below (1 Samuel 26:12)

מְרַאֲשׁוֺת: place at the head, head-place (Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:18; 1 Samuel 19:13; 1 Samuel 19:16; 1 Kings 19:6)

Same root

רֹאשׁrôʼsh · H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and jug of water that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the Lord had put Saul’s men into a deep sleep.

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).