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Lexicon :: Strong's H7218 - rō'š

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רֹאשׁ
Transliteration
rō'š
Pronunciation
roshe
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root apparently meaning to shake
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TWOT Reference: 2097

Strong’s Definitions

רֹאשׁ rôʼsh, roshe; from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.):—band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 598x

The KJV translates Strong's H7218 in the following manner: head (349x), chief (91x), top (73x), beginning (14x), company (12x), captain (10x), sum (9x), first (6x), principal (5x), chapiters (4x), rulers (2x), miscellaneous (23x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 598x
The KJV translates Strong's H7218 in the following manner: head (349x), chief (91x), top (73x), beginning (14x), company (12x), captain (10x), sum (9x), first (6x), principal (5x), chapiters (4x), rulers (2x), miscellaneous (23x).

  1. head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning

    1. head (of man, animals)

    2. top, tip (of mountain)

    3. height (of stars)

    4. chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)

    5. head, front, beginning

    6. chief, choicest, best

    7. head, division, company, band

    8. sum

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רֹאשׁ rôʼsh, roshe; from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.):—band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
STRONGS H7218: Abbreviations
I. רֹאשׁ 599 noun masculineLeviticus 13:45 head (common Semitic word; earliest form *ra’š, Arabic bdb091005, Sabean ראס PräZMG xxix (1875). 425 MordtmHim. Inschr. 31; Ethiopic bdb091006 Aramharic bdb091007 hence (a heightened) Assyrian rêšu (rarely râšu), Aramaic רֵישָׁא (Egyptian Aramaic ראש CookeNorth-Semitic Inscr. 404), bdb091009, modern (Ma'lûla) raïša, HuartJAs xii (1878), 491 Duvalid. xiii (1879), 464; Palmyrene רשא, Lzb366, compare Biblical Hebrew רִישׁוֺן, רֵאשִׁית; from*ra'š, also Biblical Hebrew *רָאשׁ, ראֹשׁ (LagSymm. i. 113), Tel Amarna rušu(nu) Wkl189, 18 (gloss to ḳaḳḳadunu), Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; SI6 ראש, Phoenician רשׁ, ראש (in proper name), Punic rus (in proper name, of a location) SchrödPhoenician Spr. 133, ראשת choicest, chief; on MI20 (suffix) רשה, l.28 ש[ר], compare Sm. u. So14 NöLCB Jan. 8, 1887, 60); — ר׳ absolute Genesis 3:15 +, construct Genesis 40:20 +; suffix ראֹשִׁי Genesis 40:16 +, etc.; plural רָאשִׁים (for רְאָשִׁים֩ NöGGA 1884, 1019) Exodus 18:25 +; construct רָאשֵׁי Hosea 4:13 + [מֵרַאֲשֹׁתֵי H7226 1 Samuel 26:12 see H4763 מְרַאֲשׁוֺת below]; suffix רָאשֵׁינוּ 1 Chronicles 12:19 [1 Chronicles 12:18], רָאשֵׁיכֶם Isaiah 29:10 +, etc.; —
1.
a. (about + 230 times) head, of human being; man Genesis 40:16, Genesis 40:17. + often, גֶּבֶר לְר׳ Judges 5:30 for the head of a man, i.e. for each man, per capita; woman 2 Kings 9:30; Deuteronomy 21:12; Numbers 5:18; Esther 2:17; boy 2 Kings 4:19 (twice in verse); Genesis 48:14 (twice in verse) +; of י׳, under figure of armed man Psalm 60:9 [Psalm 60:7] = Psalm 108:9 [Psalm 108:8]; of idol 1 Samuel 5:4; of gates, personified Psalm 24:7; Psalm 24:9.
b. head, of animals: of serpent Genesis 3:15, dog 2 Samuel 3:8, ass 2 Kings 6:25, of הַחַיָּה in Ezekiel 1:22 compare Ezekiel 1:22; Ezekiel 1:26, of הַכְּרֻבִים Ezekiel 10:1 compare Ezekiel 10:11; of sea-monsters, לִוְיָתָן Job 40:31 [Job 41:7]; Psalm 74:14, תַּנִּינִים Psalm 74:13; especially of animals for sacrifice Exodus 12:9; Exodus 29:15, Exodus 29:19; Leviticus 1:4, Leviticus 1:8, Leviticus 1:12, Leviticus 1:15; Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8 + 18 times P; in phrase וְזָנָב ר׳ Isaiah 9:13 [Isaiah 9:14] (figurative of noble and commoner) compare Isaiah 9:14 [Isaiah 9:15]; Isaiah 19:15 [Isaiah 19:16], so (figurative of relative dignity, power, influence) Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:44.
2.
a. top (88 times): of mountain, הַר, Genesis 8:5; Exodus 19:20 (twice in verse); Exodus 24:17; Exodus 34:2 + 34 times; hill, גִּבְעָה, Exodus 17:9, Exodus 17:10 (E), 2 Samuel 8:25; מְרוֺמִים ר׳ Proverbs 8:2 + Proverbs 1:21 Toy (for MT הֹמִיּוֺת), גֵּיא ר׳ שְׁמָנִים Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:4; of rocks, צֻרִים, Numbers 23:9 (JE), crag, סֶלַע, 2 Chronicles 25:12 (twice in verse); tower Genesis 11:4 (J), stronghold Judges 6:26, ladder Genesis 28:12 (E), tree 2 Samuel 5:24 = 1 Chronicles 14:15, bough Isaiah 17:6 compare Ezekiel 17:4, Ezekiel 17:22, mast (?; חִבֵּל) Proverbs 23:34 (otherwise Toy); of ears of grain, שִׁבֹּלֶת Job 24:24, of stone Genesis 28:18 (E), bed, מִטָּה, Genesis 47:31 (J), throne, עָגוֺל לַכִּסֵּה ר׳ 1 Kings 10:19, tabernacle, or its wall, Exodus 26:24 = Exodus 36:29 (P); pillar (=capital) 1 Kings 7:16, 1 Kings 7:17 + 13 times, מְכוֺנָה 1 Kings 7:35; [twice in verse], lampstand Zechariah 4:2 (twice in verse), high priest's robe, מְעִיל, Exodus 28:32 (P), פִּנָּה ר׳ Psalm 118:22 top of (the) corner, i.e. most conspicuous stone (figurative); = tip, end, of staves 1 Kings 8:8 = 2 Chronicles 5:9, of sceptre Esther 5:2.
b. height of stars Job 22:12 (|| גֹּבַהּ שָׁמַיִם).
3. + 171 times
a. head = chief (man) Judges 10:18; Judges 11:8, Judges 11:9, Judges 11:11; Exodus 18:25 (E), Numbers 1:16 (P), Deuteronomy 1:15; Hosea 2:2 [Hosea 1:11]; Micah 3:1 + often; apparently combined with idea of first in a series 1 Chronicles 12:10 [1 Chronicles 12:9]. (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:9, series of 11); of God 2 Chronicles 13:12.
†b. = chief (city) Joshua 11:10 (D), compare (of city and king) Isaiah 7:8 (twice in verse), Isaiah 7:9 (twice in verse).
†c. chief nation Jeremiah 31:7.
†d. = chief (place, position) 1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Kings 21:9, 1 Kings 21:12; Deuteronomy 20:9; 1 Chronicles 4:42 (compare also 5).
e. הָראֹשׁ chief priest 2 Kings 25:18 = Jeremiah 52:24; 2 Chronicles 19:11; 2 Chronicles 24:11; 2 Chronicles 26:20, הַכֹּחֵן ראֹשׁ 1 Chronicles 27:5, הָר׳ הַכּ׳ 2 Chronicles 31:10; Ezra 7:5; י׳ alone 2 Chronicles 24:6; רָאשֵׁי הַכֹּהֲנִים Nehemiah 12:7.
f. especially = head of a family (P Chronicles); רָאשֵׁי בֵּית (rare ראֹשׁ) אֲבוֹתָ(ם) Exodus 6:14; Numbers 7:2; Numbers 17:18 [Numbers 17:3]; Joshua 22:14; 1 Chronicles 5:24; 1 Chronicles 7:7, 1 Chronicles 7:9; בֵּית הָאָבוֺת ר׳ 1 Chronicles 7:40; לְבֵית אֲבֹתָיו ר׳ Numbers 1:4, compare 1 Chronicles 5:15, 1 Chronicles 5:24; 1 Chronicles 7:2; 1 Chronicles 9:13; 1 Chronicles 24:4; אֻמּוֺת בַּיתאָֿב ר׳ Numbers 25:15; אֲבוֺת ר׳ הָעַדָה Numbers 31:26; compare Numbers 32:28; Joshua 14:1; Joshua 21:1; אֲבוֺת הַלְוִיִּם ר׳ Exodus 6:25; Joshua 21:1; (הָ)אָבוֺת לַלְּוִיִם ר׳ 1 Chronicles 9:33, 1 Chronicles 9:34; 1 Chronicles 15:12, compare Numbers 36:1; Joshua 19:51; 1 Chronicles 8:6, 1 Chronicles 8:13; 1 Chronicles 23:9, 1 Chronicles 23:24 + 10 times Chronicles; absolute ר׳ (הָ)אָבוֺת 1 Chronicles 8:10, 1 Chronicles 8:28; 1 Chronicles 9:9; 1 Chronicles 26:32; 1 Chronicles 27:1; 2 Chronicles 1:2 + 8 times Ezra Nehemiah (Chronicles); אֲכֹתֵיהֶם ר׳ Ezra 8:1; רָאשִׁים לְאָכוֺת Nehemiah 11:13; so also י׳ alone 1 Chronicles 5:7, 1 Chronicles 5:12; 1 Chronicles 7:3; 1 Chronicles 8:28 +; apparently combined with idea of first in a series 1 Chronicles 23:8 (series of 3), 1 Chronicles 23:11 (of 4), 1 Chronicles 23:19 (of 3), 1 Chronicles 23:20 (of 2).
†4.
a. head=front, leader's place Micah 2:13; 2 Chronicles 20:27, compare Amos 6:7.
b. of time, beginning, of night-watch Judges 7:19; Lamentations 2:19; absolute מֵראֹשׁ from the beginning Isaiah 40:21; Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 41:26 (|| מִלְּפָנִים), Isaiah 48:16; Proverbs 8:23 (|| מֵעוֺלָם). Ecclesiastes 3:11 (|| עַדסֿוֺף); first of months Exodus 12:2 (|| רִאשׁוֺן), Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11 (all P); בָּראֹשׁ 1 Chronicles 16:7 at first.
c. of things, river-heads Genesis 2:10 (J); ר׳ עַפְרוֹח תֵּבֵל Proverbs 8:26.
5. chief, choicest, best, of spices, (כשׂמ(יםׅ, Ezekiel 27:22; Exodus 30:23 (P), Songs 4:14; שִׂמְחָתִי ר׳ Psalm 137:6 the choicest of my joy.
†6. head = division of army, company, band : Judges 7:16, Judges 7:20; Judges 9:34, Judges 9:37, Judges 9:43, Judges 9:44 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 11:11; 1 Samuel 13:17 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 13:18 (twice in verse) Job 1:17.
7. = sum, especially in phrase בְּנֵייִֿשׂ׳ נָשָׂא אֶתרֿ׳ Exodus 30:12 take the sum of, enumerate, compare Numbers 1:2, Numbers 1:49; Numbers 4:2, Numbers 4:22; Numbers 26:2; Numbers 31:26, Numbers 31:49; בְּראֹשׁוֺ Leviticus 5:24 [Leviticus 6:5] in its sum, i.e. in full, so Numbers 5:7 (all P); of י׳'s thoughts Psalm 139:17; compare ראֹשׁ דְּבָֽרְךָ אֱמֶת Psalm 119:160.
8. other phrase are : נָשָׂא אֶתרֿאֹשׁ פ׳ see נָשָׂא Qal 1 b (2); יָרוּם ראֹשִׁי עַלאֹֿיְבַי Psalm 27:6, מֵרִים ראֹשִׁי י׳ Psalm 3:4 [Psalm 3:3] (Psalm 110:7; Psalm 140:10 [Psalm 140:9] see רום); shake the head, see נוּעַ Hiph., compare יָנִיד בְּראֹשׁוֺ Jeremiah 8:16, מְנוֺד ראֹשׁ Psalm 44:15 [Psalm 44:14] נָתַן דֶּרֶךְ בְּראֹשׁ, i.e. requite, see נתן Qal 2 b near the end; יָשׁוּב גְּמֻלְךָ בְּר׳ Obadiah 15, compare Psalm 7:17 [Psalm 7:16]; 1 Kings 2:33 (below דָּם 2 i and (with עַלרֿ׳) Esther 9:25, הֵשִׁיב רָעָה בְּראֹשׁ Judges 9:57; 1 Samuel 25:39; 1 Kings 2:44, compare Joel 4:4 [Joel 3:4], Joel 4:7 [Joel 3:7]; 1 Kings 2:32 (sub דָּם 2 i, compare Nehemiah 3:36 [Nehemiah 4:4] (אֶלרֿאֹשָׁם), see also 2 Samuel 3:29 below 1. חוּל 3; see, further, דָּם 2 i; Daniel 1:10 see חוּב Pi..

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7217.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:10; 3:15; 3:15; 8:5; 11:4; 28:12; 28:18; 40:16; 40:16; 40:17; 40:20; 47:31; 48:14

Exodus

6:14; 6:25; 12:2; 12:9; 17:9; 17:10; 18:25; 18:25; 19:20; 24:17; 26:24; 28:32; 29:15; 29:19; 30:12; 30:23; 34:2; 36:29

Leviticus

1:4; 1:8; 1:12; 1:15; 3:2; 3:8; 6:5; 13:45

Numbers

1:2; 1:4; 1:16; 1:49; 4:2; 4:22; 5:7; 5:18; 7:2; 10:10; 17:3; 23:9; 25:15; 26:2; 28:11; 31:26; 31:26; 31:49; 32:28; 36:1

Deuteronomy

1:15; 20:9; 21:12; 28:13; 28:44

Joshua

11:10; 14:1; 19:51; 21:1; 21:1; 22:14

Judges

5:30; 6:26; 7:16; 7:19; 7:20; 9:34; 9:37; 9:43; 9:44; 9:57; 10:18; 11:8; 11:9; 11:11

1 Samuel

5:4; 9:22; 11:11; 13:17; 13:18; 25:39; 26:12

2 Samuel

3:8; 3:29; 5:24

1 Kings

2:32; 2:33; 2:44; 7; 7:16; 7:17; 8:8; 10:19; 21:9; 21:12

2 Kings

4:19; 6:25; 9:30; 25:18

1 Chronicles

4:42; 5:7; 5:12; 5:15; 5:24; 5:24; 7:2; 7:3; 7:7; 7:9; 7:40; 8:6; 8:10; 8:13; 8:28; 8:28; 9:9; 9:13; 9:33; 9:34; 12:9; 12:18; 14:15; 15:12; 16:7; 23:8; 23:9; 23:11; 23:19; 23:20; 23:24; 24:4; 26:32; 27:1; 27:5

2 Chronicles

1:2; 5:9; 13:12; 19:11; 20:27; 24:6; 24:11; 25:12; 26:20; 31:10

Ezra

7:5; 8:1

Nehemiah

4:4; 11:13; 12:7

Esther

2:17; 5:2; 9:25

Job

1:17; 22:12; 24:24; 41:7

Psalms

3:3; 7:16; 24:7; 24:9; 27:6; 44:14; 60:7; 74:13; 74:14; 108:8; 110:7; 118:22; 119:160; 137:6; 139:17; 140:9

Proverbs

1:21; 8:2; 8:23; 8:26; 23:34

Ecclesiastes

3:11

Song of Songs

4:14

Isaiah

7:8; 7:9; 9:14; 9:15; 17:6; 19:16; 28:1; 28:4; 29:10; 40:21; 41:4; 41:26; 48:16

Jeremiah

8:16; 31:7; 52:24

Lamentations

2:19

Ezekiel

1:22; 1:22; 1:26; 10:1; 10:11; 17:4; 17:22; 27:22

Daniel

1:10

Hosea

1:11; 4:13

Joel

3:4; 3:7

Amos

6:7

Obadiah

1:15

Micah

2:13; 3:1

Zechariah

4:2

H7218

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Strong's Number H7218 matches the Hebrew רֹאשׁ (rō'š),
which occurs 17 times in 16 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab[fn] of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:31 - and he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and flee; do not linger.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:6 - So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:8 - When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him:
“She despises you, she scorns you—
the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18 - And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed[fn] Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
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