# H7218 רֹאשׁ

רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh), Strong’s H7218: the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) KJV: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est…

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*rôʼsh* — the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

KJV: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end…

Occurs 599 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רֹאשׁ n.pr.gent. Rôsh
- רֹאשׁ n.m
- רֹאשׁ 599 n.m.
- a (c. 230 t.) head, of human being
- b head, of animals
- a top (88 t.)
- b height, of stars
- a head = chief (man)
- b = chief (city)
- c chief nation
- d = chief (place, position)
- e = chief priest
- f = head of a family
- a head = front, leader's place
- b of time, beginning, of night watch
- c of things, river-heads
- 5 chief, choicest, best, of spices
- 6 head = division of army, company, band
- 7 = sum, esp. in phr. take sum of, enumerate
- 8 other phr.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=10) — A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.
- [Genesis 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=15) — I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head…
- [Genesis 8:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=5) — The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of…
- [Genesis 11:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=4) — They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for…
- [Genesis 28:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=12) — He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were…
- [Genesis 28:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=18) — Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and…
- [Genesis 40:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=13) — Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup…
- [Genesis 40:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=16) — When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold…
- [Genesis 40:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=17) — In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my…
- [Genesis 40:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=19) — Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will…