Strong H7218H7218Iרֹאשׁ

head: top

One of the 7 senses of Strong H7218

Transliteration
rô'sh
Pronunciation
roshe
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

: top/best
1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning
1a) head (of man, animals)
1b) top, tip (of mountain)
1c) height (of stars)
1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)
1e) head, front, beginning
1f) chief, choicest, best
1g) head, division, company, band
1h) sum

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

Strong H7218I appears in 87 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • top66
  • head8
  • chapiter4
  • chief3
  • end2
  • beginning1
  • height1
  • place1
  • thing1
  • thou1

First verses

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Exodus 17:9
    And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
  6. Exodus 17:10
    So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
  7. Exodus 19:20
    And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
  8. Exodus 24:17
    And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
  9. Exodus 26:24
    And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
  10. Exodus 30:23
    Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
  11. Exodus 34:2
    And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
  12. Exodus 36:29
    And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
  13. Exodus 36:38
    And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
  14. Exodus 38:17
    And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
  15. Exodus 38:19
    And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
  16. Exodus 38:28
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
  17. Numbers 14:40
    And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
  18. Numbers 14:44
    But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
  19. Numbers 20:28
    And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
  20. Numbers 21:20
    And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
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