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)


  • Judges 10:18 - said And the people and princes of Gilead What man to another What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead

  • Judges 11:8 - said And the elders of Gilead unto Jephthah Therefore we turn again to thee now that thou mayest go with us and fight against the children of Ammon and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead

  • Judges 11:9 - said And Jephthah unto the elders of Gilead If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon deliver and the LORD them before me shall I be your head

  • Judges 11:11 - Then Jephthah with the elders of Gilead made and the people him head and captain uttered Then Jephthah all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh

  • Judges 13:5 - and bear a son and no razor shall come on his head shall be a Nazarite unto God for the child from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines

  • Judges 16:3 - lay And Samson at midnight and arose at midnight and took the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts and went away with them bar and all and put them upon his shoulders and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron

  • Judges 16:13 - And he said And Delilah unto Samson Hitherto thou hast mocked me and told tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound And he said unto her If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web

  • Judges 16:17 - That he told her all his heart and said a razor unto her There hath not come upon mine head for I have been a Nazarite unto God womb from my mother's if I be shaven will go then my strength from me and I shall become weak and be like any other man

  • Judges 16:19 - And she made him sleep upon her knees and she called for a man and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head and she began to afflict went him and his strength

  • Judges 16:22 - began Howbeit the hair of his head to grow again after he was shaven

  • Lamentations 1:5 - Her adversaries are the chief her enemies prosper for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her children are gone into captivity before Her adversaries

  • Lamentations 2:10 - sit to the ground and keep silence The elders of the daughter of Zion they have cast up dust their heads they have girded themselves with sackcloth hang down to the ground their heads the virgins of Jerusalem

  • Lamentations 2:15 - by clap their hands All that pass at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty The joy of the whole earth

  • Lamentations 2:19 - Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out like water thine heart before the face of the Lord lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the beginning of every street

  • Lamentations 3:54 - flowed over Waters mine head then I said I am cut off

  • Lamentations 4:1 - become dim How is the gold changed fine gold how is the most are poured out the stones of the sanctuary in the top of every street

  • Lamentations 5:16 - is fallen The crown from our head woe unto us that we have sinned

  • Leviticus 1:4 - And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement

  • Leviticus 1:8 - in order sons Aaron's And the priests the parts the head and the fat upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar

  • Leviticus 1:12 - And he shall cut it into his pieces with his head and his fat shall lay them in order and the priest on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar