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:
1 Samuel 17:46: "and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses"
1 Samuel 17:51: "it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion"
1 Samuel 17:54: "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put"
1 Samuel 17:57: "took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand."
1 Samuel 25:39: "from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent"
1 Samuel 26:13: "to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off; a great"
1 Samuel 28:2: "Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head forever."
1 Samuel 29:4: "to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these"
1 Samuel 31:9: "And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land"
2 Samuel 1:2: "with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to"
2 Samuel 1:10: "the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm,"
2 Samuel 1:16: "unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying,"
2 Samuel 2:16: "And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down"
2 Samuel 2:25: "troop, and stood on the top of a hill."
2 Samuel 3:8: "and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do show kindness"
2 Samuel 3:29: "Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house;"
2 Samuel 4:7: "in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took"
2 Samuel 4:7: "him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and got them away"
2 Samuel 4:8: "And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said"
2 Samuel 4:8: "to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy,"
2 Samuel 4:12: "the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulcher of Abner"
2 Samuel 5:24: "the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for"
2 Samuel 12:30: "their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold"
2 Samuel 12:30: "stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city"
2 Samuel 13:19: "put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that"
2 Samuel 13:19: "her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying."
2 Samuel 14:26: "And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end"
2 Samuel 14:26: "the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred"
2 Samuel 15:30: "of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot:"
2 Samuel 15:30: "was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up."
2 Samuel 15:32: "that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshiped God, behold,"
2 Samuel 15:32: "rent, and earth upon his head:"
2 Samuel 16:1: "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant"
2 Samuel 16:9: "I pray thee, and take off his head."
2 Samuel 18:9: "the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between"
2 Samuel 20:21: "And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to"
2 Samuel 20:22: "in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out"
2 Samuel 22:44: "me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew"
2 Samuel 23:8: "had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite:"
2 Samuel 23:13: "And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in"
2 Samuel 23:18: "of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up"
1 Kings 2:32: "his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men"
1 Kings 2:33: "Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed forever: but upon David,"
1 Kings 2:33: "shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed forever: but upon David, and upon his seed,"
1 Kings 2:37: "thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head."
1 Kings 2:44: "shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;"
1 Kings 7:16: "brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter"
1 Kings 7:17: "for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter,"
1 Kings 7:18: "the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other"
1 Kings 7:19: "And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch,"
