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Word Study · Strong's H7218 · Hebrew

רֹאשׁ

rosh

roshe

Strong's 1890 spelling: rôʼsh

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

Rendered in the KJV as

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.

  • 599
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 184
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 184

  • רֹ֣אשׁ49
  • רֹ֥אשׁ25
  • רָאשֵׁ֣י20
  • רֹאשׁ֑וֹ15
  • רָאשֵׁ֥י14
  • רֹאשׁ֔וֹ12
  • בְּרֹ֣אשׁ10
  • לְרֹ֣אשׁ10
  • הָרֹ֔אשׁ9
  • רֹ֤אשׁ8
  • רֹ֖אשׁ8
  • רֹאשׁ֖וֹ8

and 172 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 147

  • [the] head of58
  • head his48
  • [the] top of32
  • head my22
  • [the] chiefs of14
  • [the] leaders of14
  • the chief14
  • [the] heads of13
  • head your12
  • the head11
  • chiefs8
  • head its8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 40

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)105
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)64
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular60
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)34
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular33
  • noun · masculine singular23
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular22
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular18
  • noun · masculine plural17
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular13
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)10
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)9
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 105
  • HNcmpc · 64
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 60
  • HR/Ncmsc · 34
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 33
  • HNcmsa · 23
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 22
  • HR/Ncmsa · 18
  • HNcmpa · 17
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 13
  • HR/Ncmpc · 10
  • HC/Ncmpc · 9

The first 500 of 599, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis20 occurrences
Exodus26 occurrences
Leviticus40 occurrences
Numbers41 occurrences
Deuteronomy17 occurrences
Joshua15 occurrences
Judges28 occurrences
1 Samuel23 occurrences
2 Samuel32 occurrences
1 Kings23 occurrences
2 Kings17 occurrences
1 Chronicles73 occurrences
2 Chronicles22 occurrences
Nehemiah16 occurrences
Job13 occurrences
Psalms33 occurrences
Proverbs10 occurrences
Ecclesiastes3 occurrences
Song of Solomon9 occurrences
Isaiah28 occurrences
Jeremiah11 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled רֹאשׁ

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).