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)


  • 2 Samuel 20:22 - went Then the woman unto all the people in her wisdom And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and cast And Joab And he blew a trumpet and they retired from the city every man to his tent And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king

  • 2 Samuel 22:44 - Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings a people thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen a people which I knew not shall serve

  • 2 Samuel 23:8 - These be the names of the mighty men whom David that sat in the seat had The Tachmonite chief among the captains the same was Adino the Eznite he lift up his spear against eight hundred whom he slew time at one

  • 2 Samuel 23:13 - went down And three of the thirty chief and came in the harvest time to David unto the cave of Adullam and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim

  • 2 Samuel 23:18 - And Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was chief among three And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them and had the name against three

  • Amos 1:2 - And he said The LORD from Zion will roar from Jerusalem and utter his voice shall mourn and the habitations of the shepherds shall wither and the top of Carmel

  • Amos 2:7 - That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor the way of the meek and turn aside and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid to profane name my holy

  • Amos 6:7 - Therefore now shall they go captive with the first Therefore now shall they go captive themselves shall be removed and the banquet of them that stretched

  • Amos 8:10 - And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation and I will bring up upon all loins sackcloth upon every head and baldness and I will make into mourning of an only son and the end day thereof as a bitter

  • Amos 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing upon the altar and he said Smite the lintel of the door may shake that the posts and cut them in the head the last of them with the sword all of them and I will slay he that fleeth he that fleeth of them shall not be delivered and he that escapeth

  • Amos 9:3 - And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea thence will I command the serpent and he shall bite

  • Daniel 1:10 - said And the prince of the eunuchs unto Daniel I fear my lord the king who hath appointed your meat and your drink for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort then shall ye make me endanger my head the king

  • Deuteronomy 1:13 - Take men you wise and understanding and known among your tribes and I will make them rulers

  • Deuteronomy 1:15 - So I took the chief among your tribes wise and known and made the chief and captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens and officers among your tribes

  • Deuteronomy 3:27 - Get thee up into the top of Pisgah and lift up it with thine eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this Jordan

  • Deuteronomy 5:23 - And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness for the mountain did burn with fire that ye came near unto me even all the heads of your tribes and your elders

  • Deuteronomy 20:9 - have made an end And it shall be when the officers of speaking the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people

  • Deuteronomy 21:12 - Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house and she shall shave her head and pare her nails

  • Deuteronomy 28:13 - shall make And the LORD thee the head and not the tail and thou shalt be above only and thou shalt not be beneath if that thou hearken unto the commandments And the LORD thy God which I command thee this day to observe and to do

  • Deuteronomy 28:23 - And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass and the earth that is under thee shall be iron