Strong's #7218: ro'sh (pronounced roshe)
from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.):--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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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rô'sh
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
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
Usage:
This word is used 598 times:
Psalms 137:6: "Jerusalem above my chief joy."
Psalms 139:17: "unto me, O God! how great is the sum"
Psalms 140:7: "the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle."
Psalms 140:9: " As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover"
Psalms 141:5: "smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head:"
Psalms 141:5: "oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities."
Proverbs 1:9: "they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck."
Proverbs 1:21: "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,"
Proverbs 4:9: "She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver"
Proverbs 8:2: "She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths."
Proverbs 8:23: "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth"
Proverbs 8:26: "made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world."
Proverbs 10:6: "Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked."
Proverbs 11:26: "the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth"
Proverbs 23:34: "in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
Proverbs 25:22: "shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward"
Ecclesiastes 2:14: "The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived"
Ecclesiastes 3:11: "the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."
Ecclesiastes 9:8: "be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment."
Song of Solomon 2:6: "His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace"
Song of Solomon 4:8: "my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana,"
Song of Solomon 4:8: "me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top"
Song of Solomon 4:14: "and aloes, with all the chief spices:"
Song of Solomon 5:2: "my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks"
Song of Solomon 5:11: " His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven."
Song of Solomon 7:5: " Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held"
Song of Solomon 7:5: "upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries."
Song of Solomon 8:3: "His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace"
Isaiah 1:5: "any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart"
Isaiah 1:6: "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds,"
Isaiah 2:2: "house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;"
Isaiah 7:8: "For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within"
Isaiah 7:8: "the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore"
Isaiah 7:9: " And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If"
Isaiah 7:9: "And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If"
Isaiah 7:20: "by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume"
Isaiah 9:14: "Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush,"
Isaiah 9:15: "The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies,"
Isaiah 15:2: "and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off."
Isaiah 17:6: "two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost fruitful"
Isaiah 19:15: "any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do."
Isaiah 28:1: "flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!"
Isaiah 28:4: "beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading"
Isaiah 29:10: "your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered."
Isaiah 30:17: "shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,"
Isaiah 35:10: "and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow"
Isaiah 37:22: "the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at"
Isaiah 40:21: "heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations"
Isaiah 41:4: "and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first,"
Isaiah 41:26: "Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and formerly, that we may say,"
