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:
Nehemiah 12:12: "of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah,"
Nehemiah 12:22: "and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign"
Nehemiah 12:23: "The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles,"
Nehemiah 12:24: " And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren"
Nehemiah 12:46: "of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise"
Esther 2:17: "more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead"
Esther 5:2: "So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter."
Esther 6:8: "royal which is set upon his head:"
Esther 6:12: "to his house mourning, and having his head covered."
Esther 9:25: "the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows."
Job 1:17: "The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away,"
Job 1:20: "his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped,"
Job 2:12: "his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven."
Job 10:15: "unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;"
Job 12:24: "He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no"
Job 16:4: "words against you, and shake mine head at"
Job 19:9: "He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head."
Job 20:6: "his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;"
Job 22:12: "in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!"
Job 24:24: "they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn."
Job 29:3: "When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;"
Job 29:25: "I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as"
Job 41:7: "Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?"
Psalms 3:3: "for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head."
Psalms 7:16: "His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."
Psalms 18:43: "me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not"
Psalms 21:3: "thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head."
Psalms 22:7: "me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,"
Psalms 23:5: "me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."
Psalms 24:7: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory"
Psalms 24:9: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory"
Psalms 27:6: "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle"
Psalms 38:4: "For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for"
Psalms 40:12: "have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head:"
Psalms 44:14: "us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people."
Psalms 60:7: "is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"
Psalms 66:12: "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy"
Psalms 68:21: "But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still"
Psalms 69:4: "me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully,"
Psalms 72:16: "a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:"
Psalms 74:13: "the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters."
Psalms 74:14: "Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness."
Psalms 83:2: "make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head."
Psalms 108:8: "is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"
Psalms 109:25: "also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads."
Psalms 110:6: "he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries."
Psalms 110:7: "of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head."
Psalms 118:22: "which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."
Psalms 119:160: "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever."
Psalms 133:2: "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's"
