Strong H7218H7218Jרֹאשׁ

head: first

One of the 7 senses of Strong H7218

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

Definition

: first/start
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 H7218J appears in 18 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • beginning11
  • head2
  • principal2
  • first2
  • part1

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. Exodus 12:2
    This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
  3. Leviticus 6:5
    Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
  4. Numbers 5:7
    Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
  5. Numbers 10:10
    Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God.
  6. Numbers 28:11
    And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
  7. Judges 7:19
    So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
  8. 1 Chronicles 16:7
    Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the Lord into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
  9. Proverbs 8:23
    I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
  10. Proverbs 8:26
    While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
  11. Ecclesiastes 3:11
    He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
  12. Isaiah 40:21
    Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
  13. Isaiah 41:4
    Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
  14. Isaiah 41:26
    Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
  15. Isaiah 48:16
    Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
  16. Ezekiel 40:1
    In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.
  17. Ezekiel 42:12
    And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
  18. Amos 6:7
    Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
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