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 27:1: "Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds,"
1 Chronicles 27:3: "Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first"
1 Chronicles 27:5: "was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty"
1 Chronicles 29:11: "is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all."
2 Chronicles 1:2: "governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers."
2 Chronicles 3:15: "and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits."
2 Chronicles 3:16: "as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates,"
2 Chronicles 4:12: "and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths"
2 Chronicles 4:12: "of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;"
2 Chronicles 5:2: "the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children"
2 Chronicles 5:9: "And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before"
2 Chronicles 6:23: "the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness."
2 Chronicles 11:22: "Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king."
2 Chronicles 13:12: "And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm"
2 Chronicles 19:8: "of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment"
2 Chronicles 19:11: "And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD;"
2 Chronicles 20:27: "of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy;"
2 Chronicles 23:2: "out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came"
2 Chronicles 24:6: "And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required"
2 Chronicles 24:11: "money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied"
2 Chronicles 25:12: "of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top"
2 Chronicles 25:12: "them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces."
2 Chronicles 26:12: "The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor were two thousand and six"
2 Chronicles 26:20: "And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold,"
2 Chronicles 28:12: "Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan,"
2 Chronicles 31:10: "And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said,"
Ezra 1:5: "Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all"
Ezra 2:68: " And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem,"
Ezra 3:12: "But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that"
Ezra 4:2: "to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with"
Ezra 4:3: "But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing"
Ezra 7:5: "of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:"
Ezra 7:28: "was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with"
Ezra 8:1: "These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon,"
Ezra 8:16: "and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding."
Ezra 8:17: "And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told"
Ezra 9:3: "and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished."
Ezra 9:6: "our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens."
Ezra 10:16: "And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all"
Nehemiah 4:4: "and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:"
Nehemiah 7:70: "And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave"
Nehemiah 7:71: " And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand"
Nehemiah 8:13: "And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests,"
Nehemiah 9:17: "their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God"
Nehemiah 10:14: " The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,"
Nehemiah 11:3: "Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah"
Nehemiah 11:13: "And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son"
Nehemiah 11:16: "And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business"
Nehemiah 11:17: "of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah"
Nehemiah 12:7: "Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua."
