רֵאשׁ resh

Hebrew word for “head” · Strong’s H7217 · used 14 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

1) chief, head; 1a) head (of man); 1b) head (as seat of visions); 1c) chief; 1d) sum (essential content)

How it is translated

Glosses given for resh in context, with how often each is used:

• head 11
• heads 2
• head the 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Daniel 7 (5), Daniel 2 (3), Daniel 4 (3), Ezra 5 (1), Daniel 3 (1)

Forms

• ראשׁה 4
• ראשׁי 4
• בראשׁיהם 1
• ראשׁך 1
• ראשׁהון 1
• ראשׁ 1
• ראשׁין 1
• בראשׁה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with resh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חֱזוּ chezev “vision” 7
• חֲזָה chazah “to see” 7
• מִשְׁכַּב mishkav “bed” 5
• עַל al “since” 7
• דִּי di “that” 8
• הֲוָא hava “to be” 5
• חֵלֶם chelem “dream” 3
• הוּא hu “he/she/it” 3
• שָׁמַיִן shamayin “heaven” 3
• עוֹף oph “bird” 2
• שְׂעַר sear “hair” 2
• אֲלוּ alu “behold” 2

Key verses

The verses using resh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Daniel 2:28 — But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions…
• Daniel 2:32 — This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
• Daniel 2:38 — And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over…
• Daniel 3:27 — And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was…
• Daniel 4:5 — I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
• Daniel 4:10 — Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
• Daniel 4:13 — I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
• Daniel 7:1 — In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the…
• Daniel 7:6 — After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given…
• Daniel 7:9 — I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his…
• Daniel 7:15 — I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
• Daniel 7:20 — And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.