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 Chronicles 9:13: "And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore;"
1 Chronicles 9:17: "and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;"
1 Chronicles 9:33: "And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for"
1 Chronicles 9:34: "These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt"
1 Chronicles 9:34: "chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 10:9: "And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief."
1 Chronicles 11:10: "These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom,"
1 Chronicles 11:11: "David had; Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up"
1 Chronicles 11:15: "Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to"
1 Chronicles 11:20: "of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear"
1 Chronicles 11:42: "the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with"
1 Chronicles 12:3: " The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet,"
1 Chronicles 12:9: "Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,"
1 Chronicles 12:14: "These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least"
1 Chronicles 12:18: "came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son"
1 Chronicles 12:18: "thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band."
1 Chronicles 12:19: "to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads."
1 Chronicles 12:20: "and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh."
1 Chronicles 12:23: "And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David"
1 Chronicles 12:32: "to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren"
1 Chronicles 14:15: "a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle:"
1 Chronicles 15:12: "And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren,"
1 Chronicles 16:5: "Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah,"
1 Chronicles 16:7: "day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph"
1 Chronicles 20:2: "the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent"
1 Chronicles 20:2: "stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out"
1 Chronicles 23:8: "The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three."
1 Chronicles 23:9: "and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan."
1 Chronicles 23:11: "And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many"
1 Chronicles 23:16: "Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief."
1 Chronicles 23:17: "And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other"
1 Chronicles 23:18: "Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief."
1 Chronicles 23:19: "Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third,"
1 Chronicles 23:20: "Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second."
1 Chronicles 23:24: "of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names"
1 Chronicles 24:4: "And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons"
1 Chronicles 24:4: "Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight"
1 Chronicles 24:6: "and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one"
1 Chronicles 24:21: "Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah."
1 Chronicles 24:31: "the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal"
1 Chronicles 24:31: "of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren."
1 Chronicles 26:10: "of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn,"
1 Chronicles 26:10: "the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)"
1 Chronicles 26:12: "Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another,"
1 Chronicles 26:21: "the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli."
1 Chronicles 26:26: "which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds,"
1 Chronicles 26:31: "Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year"
1 Chronicles 26:32: "were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers"
