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:
Ezekiel 22:31: "of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 23:15: "upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner"
Ezekiel 23:42: "bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads."
Ezekiel 24:23: "And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor"
Ezekiel 27:22: "were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious"
Ezekiel 27:30: "and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:"
Ezekiel 29:18: "against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled:"
Ezekiel 32:27: "and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon"
Ezekiel 33:4: "if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head."
Ezekiel 38:2: "Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy"
Ezekiel 38:3: "Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:"
Ezekiel 39:1: "Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:"
Ezekiel 40:1: "and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth"
Ezekiel 42:12: "were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before"
Ezekiel 43:12: "is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about"
Ezekiel 44:18: "linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon"
Ezekiel 44:20: "to grow long; they shall only poll their heads."
Ezekiel 44:20: "Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll"
Daniel 1:10: "are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king."
Hosea 1:11: "be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land:"
Hosea 4:13: "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under"
Joel 2:5: "Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame"
Joel 3:4: "recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head;"
Joel 3:7: "whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:"
Amos 1:2: "from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither."
Amos 2:7: "after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek:"
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."
Amos 8:10: "and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end"
Amos 9:1: "of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword:"
Amos 9:3: "And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence;"
Obadiah 1:15: "it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head."
Jonah 2:5: "closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head."
Jonah 4:6: "Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief."
Jonah 4:8: "and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in"
Micah 2:13: "shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head"
Micah 3:1: "And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel;"
Micah 3:9: "Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house"
Micah 3:11: " The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine"
Micah 4:1: "of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills;"
Nahum 3:10: "her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots"
Habakkuk 3:13: "with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering"
Habakkuk 3:14: "Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as"
Zechariah 1:21: "so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to frighten them, to cast out"
Zechariah 3:5: "a fair miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon"
Zechariah 3:5: "a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD"
Zechariah 4:2: "of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven"
Zechariah 4:2: "lamps, which are upon the top"
Zechariah 6:11: "and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high"
