Strong's Definition
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.)
KJV Usage: 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
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — head. : head 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
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — prince. Rosh, a tite for a chief or prince
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — head: leader. : leader 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
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — head: top. : top/best 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
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — head: first. : first/start 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
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — head: group. : group 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
רֹאשׁ (rosh) — head: count. : count 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · מְרַאֲשֹׁות
| ≈ קָדְקֹד | ≠ זָנָב
head = upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs; ≈ associated with the entire person, that person's life, and that person's responsibilities
GEN 3:15 · GEN 40:16 · GEN 40:17 · GEN 40:19 · GEN 40:20 · GEN 48:14 · GEN 48:14 · GEN 48:17 · GEN 48:17 · GEN 48:17 · GEN 48:18 · GEN 49:26 · EXO 12:9 · EXO 28:32 · EXO 29:6 · EXO 29:7 · EXO 29:10 · EXO 29:15 · EXO 29:17 · EXO 29:19 · LEV 1:4 · LEV 1:8 · LEV 1:12 · LEV 1:15 · LEV 3:2 · LEV 3:8 · LEV 3:13 · LEV 4:4 · LEV 4:11 · LEV 4:15 · LEV 4:24 · LEV 4:29 · LEV 4:33 · LEV 5:8 · LEV 8:9 · LEV 8:12 · LEV 8:14 · LEV 8:18 · LEV 8:20 · LEV 8:22 · LEV 9:13 · LEV 10:6 · LEV 13:12 · LEV 13:29 · LEV 13:30 · LEV 13:40 · LEV 13:41 · LEV 13:44 · LEV 13:45 · LEV 14:9 · LEV 14:18 · LEV 14:29 · LEV 16:21 · LEV 16:21 · LEV 19:27 · LEV 21:5 · LEV 21:10 · LEV 21:10 · LEV 24:14 · NUM 5:18 · NUM 6:5 · NUM 6:5 · NUM 6:7 · NUM 6:9 · NUM 6:9 · NUM 6:11 · NUM 6:18 · NUM 6:18 · NUM 8:12 · DEU 21:12 · DEU 28:13 · DEU 28:23 · DEU 28:44 · DEU 33:16 · JOS 2:19 · JOS 2:19 · JOS 7:6 · JDG 5:26 · JDG 5:30 · JDG 7:25 · JDG 9:53 · JDG 9:57 · JDG 13:5 · JDG 16:13 · JDG 16:17 · JDG 16:19 · JDG 16:22 · 1SA 1:11 · 1SA 4:12 · 1SA 5:4 · 1SA 10:1 · 1SA 14:45 · 1SA 17:5 · 1SA 17:38 · 1SA 17:46 · 1SA 17:51 · 1SA 17:54 · 1SA 17:57 · 1SA 25:39 · 1SA 28:2 · 1SA 29:4 · 1SA 31:9 · 2SA 1:2 · 2SA 1:10 · 2SA 1:16 · 2SA 2:16 · 2SA 3:8 · 2SA 3:29 · 2SA 4:7 · 2SA 4:7 · 2SA 4:8 · 2SA 4:8 · 2SA 4:12 · 2SA 12:30 · 2SA 12:30 · 2SA 13:19 · 2SA 13:19 · 2SA 14:26 · 2SA 14:26 · 2SA 15:30 · 2SA 15:30 · 2SA 15:32 · 2SA 16:9 · 2SA 18:9 · 2SA 20:21 · 2SA 20:22 · 1KI 2:32 · 1KI 2:33 · 1KI 2:33 · 1KI 2:37 · 1KI 2:44 · 1KI 8:32 · 1KI 20:31 · 1KI 20:32 · 2KI 2:3 · 2KI 2:5 · 2KI 4:19 · 2KI 4:19 · 2KI 6:25 · 2KI 6:31 · 2KI 6:32 · 2KI 9:3 · 2KI 9:6 · 2KI 9:30 · 2KI 10:6 · 2KI 10:7 · 2KI 10:8 · 2KI 19:21 · 1CH 10:9 · 1CH 12:20 · 1CH 20:2 · 1CH 20:2 · 2CH 6:23 · EZR 9:3 · EZR 9:6 · NEH 3:36 · EST 2:17 · EST 6:8 · EST 6:12 · EST 9:25 · JOB 1:20 · JOB 2:12 · JOB 10:15 · JOB 16:4 · JOB 19:9 · JOB 24:24 · JOB 29:3 · JOB 40:31 · PSA 7:17 · PSA 21:4 · PSA 22:8 · PSA 23:5 · PSA 38:5 · PSA 40:13 · PSA 44:15 · PSA 60:9 · PSA 66:12 · PSA 68:22 · PSA 69:5 · PSA 74:13 · PSA 74:14 · PSA 108:9 · PSA 109:25 · PSA 133:2 · PSA 140:8 · PSA 140:10 · PSA 141:5 · PSA 141:5 · PRO 1:9 · PRO 4:9 · PRO 10:6 · PRO 11:26 · PRO 25:22 · ECC 2:14 · ECC 9:8 · SNG 2:6 · SNG 5:2 · SNG 5:11 · SNG 7:6 · SNG 7:6 · SNG 8:3 · ISA 1:5 · ISA 1:6 · ISA 7:20 · ISA 9:13 · ISA 9:14 · ISA 15:2 · ISA 19:15 · ISA 28:1 · ISA 28:4 · ISA 29:10 · ISA 35:10 · ISA 37:22 · ISA 51:11 · ISA 58:5 · ISA 59:17 · JER 2:37 · JER 8:23 · JER 13:18 · JER 14:3 · JER 14:4 · JER 18:16 · JER 23:19 · JER 30:23 · JER 48:37 · LAM 2:10 · LAM 2:10 · LAM 2:15 · LAM 3:54 · LAM 5:16 · EZK 1:22 · EZK 1:22 · EZK 1:25 · EZK 1:26 · EZK 5:1 · EZK 7:18 · EZK 8:3 · EZK 9:10 · EZK 10:1 · EZK 10:11 · EZK 11:21 · EZK 13:18 · EZK 16:12 · EZK 16:43 · EZK 17:19 · EZK 22:31 · EZK 23:15 · EZK 23:42 · EZK 24:23 · EZK 27:30 · EZK 29:18 · EZK 32:27 · EZK 33:4 · EZK 44:18 · EZK 44:20 · EZK 44:20 · DAN 1:10 · JOL 4:4 · JOL 4:7 · AMO 2:7 · AMO 8:10 · AMO 9:1 · OBA 1:15 · JON 2:6 · JON 4:6 · JON 4:8 · HAB 3:13 · HAB 3:14 · ZEC 3:5 · ZEC 3:5 · ZEC 6:11
Begin
beginning literally: head; hence: = the point in time at which an event starts happening
EXO 12:2 · NUM 10:10 · NUM 28:11 · JDG 7:19 · 1CH 16:7 · PRO 8:23 · PRO 8:26 · ECC 3:11 · ISA 40:21 · ISA 41:4 · ISA 41:26 · ISA 48:16 · LAM 2:19 · EZK 40:1
Confident | verb qal
Collocation: רום רֹאשׁ
one's head is lifted up > to look up with confidence literally: (one's) head is lifted up; hence: = state in which humans can look up without shame
Confident | verb hif
Collocation: רום רֹאשׁ
to lift up (one's) head > to look up with confidence literally: to lift up (one's) head; hence: = action by which humans look up without shame
Confident | verb hif
Collocation: רום רֹאשׁ
to lift up (someone's head) > to cause (someone) to look up with confidence literally: to lift up (someone else's) head; hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans to be able to look up without shame
Conflict | verb qal
Collocation: נשׂא רֹאשׁ
to be a threat literally: to lift up (one's) head; hence: = action by which nations still have the ability to engage themselves in a military conflict with others, ◄ as someone who can still lift up his head after having been beaten down
Free | verb qal
Collocation: נשׂא רֹאשׁ
to release from prison literally: to lift up (someone's) head; hence: = causative action by which humans declare other humans free after having held them prisoner
Frequency
count, sum literally: head; hence: = the total number of a range of events
Good
best, finest = literally: head; hence: = state in which products have a quality that is superior to anything else
Intense
climax literally: head; hence: = state in which an event reachest its highest level of intensity
Leaders
head, chief, leader literally: head; hence: = the person in leadership of a group of people, or, by extension, the most important object among a set of objects
EXO 6:14 · EXO 6:25 · EXO 18:25 · NUM 1:4 · NUM 1:16 · NUM 7:2 · NUM 10:4 · NUM 13:3 · NUM 14:4 · NUM 17:18 · NUM 25:4 · NUM 25:15 · NUM 30:2 · NUM 31:26 · NUM 31:26 · NUM 32:28 · NUM 36:1 · NUM 36:1 · DEU 1:13 · DEU 1:15 · DEU 1:15 · DEU 5:23 · DEU 20:9 · DEU 29:9 · DEU 32:42 · DEU 33:5 · DEU 33:21 · JOS 11:10 · JOS 14:1 · JOS 19:51 · JOS 21:1 · JOS 21:1 · JOS 22:14 · JOS 22:21 · JOS 22:30 · JOS 23:2 · JOS 24:1 · JDG 10:18 · JDG 11:8 · JDG 11:9 · JDG 11:11 · 1SA 15:17 · 2SA 22:44 · 2SA 23:8 · 2SA 23:13 · 2SA 23:18 · 1KI 8:1 · 2KI 25:18 · 1CH 4:42 · 1CH 5:7 · 1CH 5:12 · 1CH 5:15 · 1CH 5:24 · 1CH 5:24 · 1CH 7:2 · 1CH 7:3 · 1CH 7:7 · 1CH 7:9 · 1CH 7:11 · 1CH 7:40 · 1CH 7:40 · 1CH 8:6 · 1CH 8:10 · 1CH 8:13 · 1CH 8:28 · 1CH 8:28 · 1CH 9:9 · 1CH 9:13 · 1CH 9:17 · 1CH 9:33 · 1CH 9:34 · 1CH 9:34 · 1CH 11:6 · 1CH 11:6 · 1CH 11:10 · 1CH 11:11 · 1CH 11:15 · 1CH 11:20 · 1CH 11:42 · 1CH 12:3 · 1CH 12:10 · 1CH 12:15 · 1CH 12:19 · 1CH 12:19 · 1CH 12:21 · 1CH 12:33 · 1CH 15:12 · 1CH 16:5 · 1CH 23:8 · 1CH 23:9 · 1CH 23:11 · 1CH 23:16 · 1CH 23:17 · 1CH 23:18 · 1CH 23:19 · 1CH 23:20 · 1CH 23:24 · 1CH 24:4 · 1CH 24:4 · 1CH 24:6 · 1CH 24:21 · 1CH 24:31 · 1CH 24:31 · 1CH 26:10 · 1CH 26:10 · 1CH 26:12 · 1CH 26:21 · 1CH 26:26 · 1CH 26:31 · 1CH 26:32 · 1CH 27:1 · 1CH 27:3 · 1CH 27:5 · 1CH 29:11 · 2CH 1:2 · 2CH 5:2 · 2CH 11:22 · 2CH 13:12 · 2CH 19:8 · 2CH 19:11 · 2CH 23:2 · 2CH 24:6 · 2CH 24:11 · 2CH 26:12 · 2CH 26:20 · 2CH 28:12 · 2CH 31:10 · EZR 1:5 · EZR 2:68 · EZR 3:12 · EZR 4:2 · EZR 4:3 · EZR 7:5 · EZR 7:28 · EZR 8:1 · EZR 8:16 · EZR 8:17 · EZR 10:16 · NEH 7:69 · NEH 7:70 · NEH 8:13 · NEH 9:17 · NEH 10:15 · NEH 11:3 · NEH 11:13 · NEH 11:16 · NEH 11:17 · NEH 12:7 · NEH 12:12 · NEH 12:22 · NEH 12:23 · NEH 12:24 · NEH 12:46 · JOB 1:17 · JOB 12:24 · JOB 29:25 · PSA 18:44 · PSA 110:6 · PSA 118:22 · ISA 7:8 · ISA 7:8 · ISA 7:9 · ISA 7:9 · JER 13:21 · JER 31:7 · JER 52:24 · LAM 1:5 · EZK 38:2 · EZK 38:3 · EZK 39:1 · HOS 2:2 · MIC 3:1 · MIC 3:9 · MIC 3:11 · HAB 3:13
Spatial Referents
top, peak, head literally: head; hence: = a referent pointing to the topmost part of a vertically oriented object, such as a mountain, and the principal part of an horizontally oriented object, such as a street or a bed
GEN 8:5 · GEN 11:4 · GEN 28:12 · GEN 28:18 · GEN 47:31 · EXO 17:9 · EXO 17:10 · EXO 19:20 · EXO 19:20 · EXO 24:17 · EXO 26:24 · EXO 34:2 · EXO 36:29 · EXO 36:38 · EXO 38:17 · EXO 38:19 · EXO 38:28 · NUM 14:40 · NUM 14:44 · NUM 20:28 · NUM 21:20 · NUM 23:9 · NUM 23:14 · NUM 23:28 · DEU 3:27 · DEU 34:1 · JOS 15:8 · JOS 15:9 · JDG 6:26 · JDG 9:7 · JDG 9:25 · JDG 9:36 · JDG 16:3 · 1SA 9:22 · 1SA 26:13 · 2SA 2:25 · 2SA 5:24 · 2SA 15:32 · 2SA 16:1 · 1KI 7:16 · 1KI 7:17 · 1KI 7:18 · 1KI 7:19 · 1KI 7:22 · 1KI 7:35 · 1KI 7:35 · 1KI 7:41 · 1KI 7:41 · 1KI 8:8 · 1KI 10:19 · 1KI 18:42 · 1KI 21:9 · 1KI 21:12 · 2KI 1:9 · 1CH 14:15 · 2CH 3:15 · 2CH 3:16 · 2CH 4:12 · 2CH 4:12 · 2CH 5:9 · 2CH 20:27 · 2CH 25:12 · 2CH 25:12 · EST 5:2 · JOB 20:6 · JOB 22:12 · PSA 24:7 · PSA 24:9 · PSA 72:16 · PRO 1:21 · PRO 8:2 · PRO 23:34 · SNG 4:8 · SNG 4:8 · ISA 2:2 · ISA 17:6 · ISA 28:1 · ISA 28:4 · ISA 30:17 · ISA 42:11 · ISA 51:20 · JER 22:6 · LAM 2:19 · LAM 4:1 · EZK 6:13 · EZK 16:25 · EZK 16:31 · EZK 17:4 · EZK 17:22 · EZK 21:24 · EZK 21:26 · EZK 42:12 · EZK 43:12 · HOS 4:13 · JOL 2:5 · AMO 1:2 · AMO 6:7 · AMO 9:3 · MIC 2:13 · MIC 4:1 · NAM 3:10 · ZEC 4:2 · ZEC 4:2
noun m
Plants | ≈ לַעֲנָה
poisonous weeds exact meaning unsure; possibly: = a poisonous plant sometimes found in the furrows of a field; ◄ Hyoscyamus reticulatus (Veined henbane)
name
1 ISA 28:1 · ISA 28:4 NJPS NRSV REB "head" (of person) | RSV NIV NJB CEV ESV "head" (of valley) 2 JER 13:18 RSV NIV NRSV NJB REB GNT ESV | MT HOTTP-C מְרַאֲשֹׁות | NJPS "diadems" 3 HAB 3:13 RSV NJB NRSV ESV "head" (of person? or leader?) | NIV GNT "leader" CEV "ruler" | NJPS "roof"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
רֹאשׁ 599 n.m.
(c. 230 t.) head, of human being
head, of animals
top (88 t.)
height, of stars
head = chief (man)
= chief (city)
chief nation
= chief (place, position)
= chief priest
= head of a family
head = front, leader's place
of time, beginning, of night watch
of things, river-heads
chief, choicest, best, of spices
head = division of army, company, band
= sum, esp. in phr. take sum of, enumerate
other phr.
base
רֹאשׁ n.pr.gent. Rôsh base