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)


  • 1 Samuel 26:13 - went over Then David to the other side and stood on the top of an hill afar off a great space

  • 1 Samuel 28:2 - said And David And Achish Surely thou shalt know can do what thy servant said And Achish And David Surely thee keeper of mine head Therefore will I make for ever

  • 1 Samuel 29:4 - were wroth And the princes of the Philistines said And the princes of the Philistines return this fellow return to his place which thou hast appointed him and let him not go down lest in the battle he be an adversary lest in the battle to us for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master should it not be with the heads of these men

  • 1 Samuel 31:9 - And they cut off his head and stripped off his armour and sent into the land of the Philistines round about to publish it in the house of their idols and among the people

  • 2 Chronicles 1:2 - spake Then Solomon in all Israel to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every governor in all Israel the chief of the fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 3:15 - Also he made before the house pillars two cubits of thirty and five high and the chapiter that was on the top cubits and five

  • 2 Chronicles 3:16 - And he made chains as in the oracle and put them on the heads of the pillars And he made pomegranates an hundred and put chains

  • 2 Chronicles 4:12 - of the pillars To wit the two and the pommels and the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars To wit the two wreaths To wit the two to cover To wit the two and the pommels and the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars

  • 2 Chronicles 5:2 - assembled Then Solomon the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel unto Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David which is Zion

  • 2 Chronicles 5:9 - And they drew out of the staves but they were not seen of the ark that the ends of the staves from the ark before the oracle but they were not seen without And there it is unto this day

  • 2 Chronicles 6:23 - Then hear thou from heaven and do and judge thy servants by requiting the wicked by giving his way upon his own head and by justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness

  • 2 Chronicles 11:22 - made the chief And Rehoboam Abijah the son of Maachah to be ruler among his brethren for he thought to make him king

  • 2 Chronicles 13:12 - himself is with us for our captain And behold God and his priests trumpets with sounding to cry alarm against you O children of Israel fight ye not against the LORD And behold God of your fathers for ye shall not prosper

  • 2 Chronicles 19:8 - Moreover in Jerusalem set did Jehoshaphat of the Levites and of the priests and of the chief of the fathers of Israel for the judgment of the LORD and for controversies when they returned Moreover in Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 19:11 - And behold Amariah priest the chief is over you in all matters and the LORD and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael the ruler of the house of Judah is over you in all matters for all the king's shall be officers also the Levites before courageously you Deal and the LORD shall be with the good

  • 2 Chronicles 20:27 - Then they returned every man of Judah and Jerusalem and Jehoshaphat in the forefront Then they returned and Jerusalem with joy had made them to rejoice for the LORD over their enemies

  • 2 Chronicles 23:2 - And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities in Judah and the chief of the fathers of Israel and they came to Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 24:6 - called And the king for Jehoiada the chief and said unto him Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD and of the congregation of Israel for the tabernacle of witness

  • 2 Chronicles 24:11 - Now it came to pass that at what time came the chest office the king's by the hand of the Levites and when they saw that there was much money came scribe the king's officer priest's and the high and emptied the chest and took again it to his place Thus they did by day by day and gathered money in abundance

  • 2 Chronicles 25:12 - And other ten thousand left alive carry away captive did the children of Judah and brought from the top of the rock and cast them down from the top of the rock that they all were broken in pieces