Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7218: רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh) Definition

Strong's number
H7218
Lemma
רֹאשׁ
Transliteration
rôʼsh
Pronunciation
roshe
Strong's definition
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top. from an unused root apparently meaning to shake;

547 instances of the word רֹאשׁ rôʼsh (H7218)


  • Ezra 2:68 - And some of the chief of the fathers when they came for the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place

  • Ezra 3:12 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers who were ancient men that had seen house the first was laid house before their eyes wept voice with a loud But many shouted for joy aloud voice

  • Ezra 4:2 - Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief of the fathers and said unto them Let us build with you for we seek your God as ye do and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur which brought us up hither

  • Ezra 4:3 - said But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house God but we ourselves together unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build unto the LORD God of Israel hath commanded as king Cyrus as king of Persia

  • Ezra 7:5 - The son of Abishua The son of Phinehas The son of Eleazar The son of Aaron priest the chief

  • Ezra 7:28 - And hath extended mercy unto me before and before all the king's and his counsellors princes and before all the king's mighty And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up

  • Ezra 8:1 - These are now the chief of their fathers and this is the genealogy of them that went up in the reign of Artaxerxes the king with me from Babylon

  • Ezra 8:16 - Then sent I for Eliezer for Ariel for Shemaiah and for Elnathan and for Jarib and for Elnathan and for Nathan and for Zechariah and for Meshullam chief men also for Joiarib and for Elnathan men of understanding

  • Ezra 8:17 - And I sent unto Iddo the chief Casiphia at the place and I told them what they should say unto Iddo and to his brethren the Nethinims Casiphia at the place that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God

  • Ezra 9:3 - And when I heard this thing I rent my garment and my mantle and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard and sat down astonied

  • Ezra 9:6 - And said O my God I am ashamed and blush to lift up O my God my face for our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens

  • Ezra 10:16 - did so And the children of the captivity were separated And Ezra the priest chief of the fathers after the house of the fathers and all of them by their names and sat down day in the first month of the tenth to examine the matter

  • Genesis 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads

  • Genesis 3:15 - enmity And I will put between thee and the woman and between thy seed and between thy seed and thou shalt bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel

  • Genesis 8:5 - And the waters continually decreased until day of the month in the tenth in the tenth month on the first day of the month seen were the tops of the mountains

  • Genesis 11:4 - And they said Go to let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth

  • Genesis 28:12 - And he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending

  • Genesis 28:18 - rose up early And Jacob in the morning and took the stone and set it up for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it

  • Genesis 40:13 - Yet within three days lift up Pharaoh's thine head and restore thee unto thy place and thou shalt deliver cup Pharaoh's into his hand manner after the former

  • Genesis 40:16 - saw When the chief baker was good that the interpretation he said unto Joseph I also was in my dream and behold I had three baskets white on my head