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)


  • Nahum 3:10 - Yet was she carried away she went into captivity her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets for her honourable men and they cast lots and all her great men were bound in chains

  • Nehemiah 4:4 - Hear O our God for we are despised and turn their reproach upon their own head and give them for a prey in the land of captivity

  • Nehemiah 7:70 - And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work The Tirshatha gave to the treasure of gold drams a thousand basons fifty garments priests and thirty five hundred

  • Nehemiah 7:71 - And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work of gold drams twenty thousand of silver pound and two thousand and two hundred

  • Nehemiah 8:13 - day And on the second were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people the priests and the Levites unto Ezra the scribe even to understand the words of the law

  • Nehemiah 9:17 - And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardened their necks appointed a captain to return to their bondage and in their rebellion but thou art a God ready to pardon gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest

  • Nehemiah 10:14 - The chief of the people Parosh Pahathmoab Elam Zatthu Bani

  • Nehemiah 11:3 - Now these are the chief of the province dwelt in Jerusalem but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession but in the cities to wit Israel the priests and the Levites and the Nethinims and the children servants of Solomon's

  • Nehemiah 11:13 - And his brethren chief of the fathers hundred forty and two and Amashai the son of Azareel the son of Ahasai the son of Meshillemoth the son of Immer

  • Nehemiah 11:16 - And Shabbethai and Jozabad business had the oversight of the outward of the house of God of the chief of the Levites

  • Nehemiah 11:17 - And Mattaniah the son the son of Zabdi the son of Asaph was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren and Abda the son of Shammua the son of Galal the son of Jeduthun

  • Nehemiah 12:7 - Sallu Amok Hilkiah Jedaiah These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua

  • Nehemiah 12:12 - And in the days of Joiakim were priests the chief of the fathers of Seraiah Meraiah of Jeremiah Hananiah

  • Nehemiah 12:22 - The Levites in the days of Eliashib Joiada and Johanan and Jaddua were recorded chief of the fathers also the priests to the reign of Darius the Persian

  • Nehemiah 12:23 - The sons of Levi the chief of the fathers were written in the book of the chronicles even until the days even until the days of Johanan The sons of Eliashib

  • Nehemiah 12:24 - And the chief of the Levites Hashabiah Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel with their brethren over against them to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God ward over against ward

  • Nehemiah 12:46 - For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God

  • Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel after their families by the house of their fathers with the number of their names every male by their polls

  • Numbers 1:4 - And with you there shall be a man And with you there shall be a man tribe And with you there shall be a man head of the house of his fathers

  • Numbers 1:16 - These were of the congregation princes of the tribes of their fathers heads of thousands Israel in