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:
Joshua 19:51: "and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,"
Joshua 21:1: "Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto"
Joshua 21:1: "the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;"
Joshua 22:14: "house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was a head of the house"
Joshua 22:21: "answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,"
Joshua 22:30: "the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with"
Joshua 23:2: "for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto"
Joshua 24:1: "and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before"
Judges 5:26: "and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples."
Judges 5:30: "sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera"
Judges 6:26: "unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take"
Judges 7:16: "hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand,"
Judges 7:19: "him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set"
Judges 7:20: "And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps"
Judges 7:25: "and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to"
Judges 8:28: "the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness"
Judges 9:7: "it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice,"
Judges 9:25: "set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all"
Judges 9:34: "against Shechem in four companies."
Judges 9:36: "Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul"
Judges 9:37: "by the middle of the land, and another company come along by"
Judges 9:43: "the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold,"
Judges 9:44: "And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate"
Judges 9:44: "of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that"
Judges 9:53: "of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to broke his skull."
Judges 9:57: "of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham"
Judges 10:18: "against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11:8: "against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11:9: "deliver them before me, shall I be your head?"
Judges 11:11: "of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered"
Judges 13:5: "razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite"
Judges 16:3: "with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill"
Judges 16:13: "her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web."
Judges 16:17: "come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God"
Judges 16:19: "the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went"
Judges 16:22: "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven."
1 Samuel 1:11: "and there shall no razor come upon his head."
1 Samuel 4:12: "with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head."
1 Samuel 5:4: "to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms"
1 Samuel 9:22: "and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty"
1 Samuel 10:1: "of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because"
1 Samuel 11:11: "put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host"
1 Samuel 13:17: "of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned"
1 Samuel 13:17: "of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way"
1 Samuel 13:18: "And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned"
1 Samuel 13:18: "the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh"
1 Samuel 14:45: "liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for"
1 Samuel 15:17: "in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed"
1 Samuel 17:5: "And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail;"
1 Samuel 17:38: "a helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail."
