Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4763
מְרַאֲשָׁה
meraashahmer-ah-ash-aw'
head
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉraʼăshâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4763is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4763
properly, a headpiece, i.e. (plural for adverbial) at (or as) the head-rest (or pillow)
The King James renders it: bolster, head, pillow. Compare H4772 (מַרְגְלָה).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
meraashah is rendered "head". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 28:11On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
Genesis 28:11מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- place of head his6
- place of head its2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו2
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֛יו2
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃2
- מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֔יו1
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8HNcfpc/Sp3ms
Genesis
two uses
On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
- מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יוmeraashotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head his
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
- מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֔יוmeraashotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head his
1 Samuel
five uses
Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
- מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יוmeraashotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head its
And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃meraashotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head its
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֑יוmeraashotovnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head his
But the LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and water jug by his head, and let us go.”
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֛יוmeraashotovnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head his
This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃meraashotovnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head his
1 Kings
one use
And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
- מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֛יוmeraashotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: place of head his
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.