רֹאשׁ rosh

Hebrew word for “head” · Strong’s H7218 · used 599 times in 547 verses

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Meaning

: head; 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning;

Senses in the lexicon

• head (282)
• head: leader (178)
• head: top (95)
• head: first (18)
• head: group (16)
• head: count (7)
• prince (3)

How it is translated

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

• head 291
• top 67
• heads 49
• chiefs 45
• chief 45
• leaders 27
• tops 13
• own head 12
• beginning 10
• companies 9
• leader 5
• company 4

Where it is used

Also in 23 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 9 (9), 1 Chronicles 23 (9), 1 Chronicles 12 (8), Leviticus 13 (7), 1 Kings 7 (7), Exodus 29 (6), Leviticus 4 (6), Leviticus 8 (6), 1 Samuel 17 (6), 1 Chronicles 7 (6)

Forms

• ראשׁ 146
• ראשׁי 101
• ראשׁו 65
• הראשׁ 38
• בראשׁ 37
• לראשׁ 24
• ראשׁים 19
• בראשׁו 14
• מראשׁ 14
• ראשׁם 14

Words used with it

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

• אָב av “father” 77
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 42
• דָּוִד david “David” 41
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 35
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 39
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 36
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 31
• הַר har “mountain” 29
• סָמַךְ samakh “to support” 18
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 29
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 27
• אָח ach “brother” 28

Key verses

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

• Genesis 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• 1 Chronicles 29:11 — Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine…
• Ezra 9:6 — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up…
• Isaiah 1:5 — Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Isaiah 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above…
• Isaiah 9:15 — The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
• Isaiah 35:10 — And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and…
• Lamentations 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of…
• Amos 9:1 — I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will…
• Micah 3:1 — And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
• Micah 3:11 — The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and…
• Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be…

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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.