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Strong H72187 sensesרֹאשׁ

head · head: leader · head: top · head: first · head: group · head: count …

Transliteration
rô'sh
Pronunciation
roshe

The 7 senses of Strong H7218

The lexicon tells 7 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H7218 appears in 548 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. headH7218A: head253 verses · 32 books
  2. head: leaderH7218H: leader162 verses · 21 books
  3. head: topH7218I: top/best87 verses · 27 books
  4. head: firstH7218J: first/start18 verses · 11 books
  5. head: groupH7218K: group13 verses · 5 books
  6. head: countH7218L: count7 verses · Exodus, Numbers
  7. princeH7218BRosh, a tite for a chief or prince3 verses · Ezekiel

General definition

From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily {shaken }) whether literally or figuratively (in many {applications} of {place} {time} {rank} etc.): - {band} {beginning} {captain} {chapiter} chief (-est {place} {man} {things}) {company} {end} X every {[man]} {excellent} {first} {forefront} ([be-]) {head} {height} (on) high (-est {part} {[priest]}) X {lead} X {poor} {principal} {ruler} {sum} top.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • head319
  • chief86
  • top68
  • beginning14
  • captain10
  • company9
  • sum9
  • first6
  • chapiter4
  • man4
  • principal4
  • high3

First verses

  1. Genesis 2:10
    And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
  2. 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.
  3. Genesis 8:5
    And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
  4. Genesis 11:4
    And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  5. Genesis 28:12
    And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
  6. Genesis 28:18
    And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
  7. Genesis 40:13
    Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
  8. Genesis 40:16
    When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
  9. Genesis 40:17
    And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
  10. Genesis 40:19
    Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
  11. Genesis 40:20
    And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
  12. Genesis 47:31
    And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
  13. Genesis 48:14
    And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
  14. Genesis 48:17
    And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
  15. Genesis 48:18
    And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
  16. Genesis 49:26
    The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
  17. Exodus 6:14
    These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
  18. Exodus 6:25
    And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
  19. Exodus 12:2
    This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
  20. Exodus 12:9
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.