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)


  • Job 24:24 - They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low they are taken out as the tops of the ears of corn as all other and cut off

  • Job 29:3 - shined When his candle upon my head and when by his light through darkness

  • Job 29:25 - I chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in the army the mourners as one that comforteth

  • Job 41:7 - Canst thou fill with barbed irons his skin spears with fish or his head

  • Joel 2:5 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap Like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble people as a strong array set in battle

  • Joel 3:4 - Yea and what have ye to do with me O Tyre and Zidon and all the coasts of Palestine me a recompence will ye render and if ye recompense me swiftly and speedily will I return me a recompence upon your own head

  • Joel 3:7 - Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them and will return your recompence upon your own head

  • Jonah 2:5 - compassed me about The waters even to the soul the depth closed me round about the weeds were wrapped about my head

  • Jonah 4:6 - prepared And the LORD God a gourd and made it to come up So Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief glad So Jonah a gourd was exceeding

  • Jonah 4:8 - did arise And it came to pass when the sun prepared that God wind east a vehement beat And it came to pass when the sun upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said It is better for me to die than to live

  • Joshua 2:19 - And it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors and whosoever shall be with thee in the house into the street his blood shall be on our head and we will be guiltless And it shall be that whosoever and whosoever shall be with thee in the house his blood shall be on our head if any hand

  • Joshua 7:6 - rent And Joshua his clothes and fell before to the earth before the ark of the LORD until the eventide he and the elders of Israel and put dust upon their heads

  • Joshua 11:10 - turned back And Joshua at that time and took Hazor the king and smote thereof with the sword Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms

  • Joshua 14:1 - distributed for inheritance And these are the countries which the children of Israel in the land of Canaan distributed for inheritance which Eleazar the priest and Joshua And these are the countries which the children of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes And these are the countries which the children of Israel

  • Joshua 15:8 - went up And the border by the valley of the son of Hinnom side of the Jebusite unto the south the same is Jerusalem went up And the border to the top of the mountain that lieth before by the valley of Hinnom westward which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward

  • Joshua 15:9 - was drawn And the border from the top of mount unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah and went out to the cities of mount Ephron was drawn And the border to Baalah which is Kirjathjearim

  • Joshua 19:51 - These are the inheritances divided for an inheritance which Eleazar the priest and Joshua of the children of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel by lot in Shiloh before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation So they made an end of dividing the country

  • Joshua 21:1 - Then came near and unto the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest and unto Joshua of the children of Nun and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel

  • Joshua 22:14 - And with him ten chief chief of each chief of each house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel and each one was an head house a prince among the thousands of Israel

  • Joshua 22:21 - answered Then the children of Reuben Then the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel