רֹאשׁ

head

also: top, summit, upper part, chief fuller range ↓

H7218 Strong's Hebrew

rôʼsh Transliteration

/roshe/ Pronunciation

Usage in the Hebrew Bible 600 appearances

Definition — BDB

head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning - head (of man, animals) - top, tip (of mountain) - height (of stars) - chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) - head, front, beginning - chief, choicest, best - head, division, company, band

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Strong's H7218 — ראש (rôʼsh), "head". Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB, 1906). Lemma, https://lemma.gebible.app/w/H7218.

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Noun: A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.

Common: A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.

Construct: A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Absolute: The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.

Masculine: Grammatically masculine.

Singular: One.
Plural: More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

Grammatical forms

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 353 times (59%)
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 128 times (21%)
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 97 times (16%)
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 22 times (4%)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 600 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

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2 Samuel 25 verses

1 Kings 20 verses

2 Kings 16 verses

1 Chronicles 63 verses

2 Chronicles 20 verses

Ezra 13 verses

Nehemiah 16 verses

Esther 5 verses

Job 13 verses

Psalms 32 verses

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Hebrew noun ראש centers on the idea of “head.” Beyond “head” it also covers “top”, “summit”, and “upper part” — see its full sense range. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 547 verses — among the most common. First canonically at Genesis 2:10, it enters the text early. Related forms include מראשה, ראש and ראש. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890

band

Modern gloss

head

About this word

Strong's H7218 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

547: distinct verses; The word appears in 547 distinct verses.
35 / 39: OT books; The word appears in 35 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 2:10: first appearance; The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 2:10.
Zechariah 6:11: last appearance; The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 6:11.
#80: by frequency; Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 80 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

1 Chronicles 63 verses 12%
Leviticus 38 verses 7%
Ezekiel 38 verses 7%

By section of the Old Testament

Pentateuch 131 · 24%
Historical 239 · 44%
Wisdom 65 · 12%
Prophets 112 · 20%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 547 distinct verses.

Prophets (Nevi'im) 226 verses · 41%
Writings (Ketuvim) 190 verses · 35%
Torah (Pentateuch) 131 verses · 24%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.

King James Version: Head 201×, Chief 63×, Heads 60×
American Standard Version: Head 174×, Heads 81×, Top 44×
Berean Standard Bible: Head 186×, Heads 92×, Top 28×
unfoldingWord Literal Text: Head 222×, Head of 120×, Heads of 81×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H7218 across 598 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Head” 201×
“Chief” 63×
“Heads” 60×
“Top” 54×
“Own head” 11×
“Beginning” 10×
“Sum” 7×
“Companies” 6×
“First” 6×
“Tops” 6×
“Captains” 5×
“Company” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 94 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H7218 across 601 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Head” 174×
“Heads” 81×
“Top” 44×
“Chief” 38×
“Own head” 12×
“'s head” 10×
“Companies” 8×
“Sum” 8×
“Beginning” 7×
“Tops” 7×
“Chiefs” 5×
“Capitals” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 128 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H7218 across 570 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Head” 186×
“Heads” 92×
“Top” 28×
“Chief” 24×
“Leaders” 24×
“First” 12×
“Atop” 11×
“Beginning” 10×
“Leader” 8×
“Own head” 8×
“Tops” 8×
“Chiefs” 7×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 79 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 28 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H7218 across 617 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Head” 222×
“Head of” 120×
“Heads of” 81×
“Heads” 50×
“Top of” 16×
“Top” 9×
“Companies” 8×
“And” 7×
“Beginning” 7×
“Tops of” 7×
“Were heads of” 6×
“Company” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

18 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol	Meaning
𝔊	the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙	the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖	the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗	the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ	the Psalms
√	root (the underlying root or stem)
‖	parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
†	the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 18 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

ראש I

1.
- a. (c. 230 times) head, of human being; man Gn 40:16, 17 + often, לְר׳ גֶּבֶר Ju 5:30 for the head of a man, i.e. for each man, per capita; woman 2 K 9:30; Dt 21:12; Nu 5:18; Est 2:17; boy 2 K 4:19(×2); Gn 48:14(×2) +; of י׳, under fig. of armed man ψ 60:9 = 108:9; of idol 1 S 5:4; of gates, personif. ψ 24:7, 9. e.g. Genesis 40:16
- b. head, of animals: of serpent Gn 3:15, dog 2 S 3:8, ass 2 K 6:25, of הַחַיָּה in Ez 1:22 cf. v 22, 26, of הַכְּרֻבִים 10:1 cf. v 11; of sea-monsters, לִוְיָתָן Jb 40:31 ψ 74:14, תַּנִּינִים v 13; especially of animals for sacrifice Ex 12:9; 29:15, 19 Lv 1:4, 8, 12, 15; 3:2, 8 + 18 times P; in phr. ר׳ וְזָנָב Is 9:13 (fig. of noble and commoner) cf. v 14; 19:15, so (fig. of relative dignity, power, influence) Dt 28:13, 44. e.g. Genesis 3:15
2.
- a. top (88 times): of mt., הַר, Gn 8:5; Ex 19:20(×2); 24:17; 34:2 + 34 times; hill, גִּבְעָה, Ex 17:9, 10 (E), 2 S 8:25; ר׳ מְרוֹמִים Pr 8:2 + 1:21 Toy (for MT הֹמִיּוֹת), ר׳ גֵּיא שְׁמָנִים Is 28:1, 4; of rocks, צֻרִים, Nu 23:9 (JE), crag, סֶלַע, 2 Ch 25:12(×2); tower Gn 11:4 (J), stronghold Ju 6:26, ladder Gn 28:12 (E), tree 2 S 5:24 = 1 Ch 14:15, bough Is 17:6 cf. Ez 17:4, 22, mast (?; חִבֵּל) Pr 23:34 (otherwise Toy); of ears of grain, שִׁבֹּלֶת Jb 24:24, of stone Gn 28:18 (E), bed, מִטָּה, 47:31 (J), throne, ר׳ עָגוֹל לַכִּסֵּה 1 K 10:19, tabern., or its wall, Ex 26:24 = 36:29 (P); pillar (= capital) 1 K 7:16, 17 + 13 times, מְכוֹנָה v 35(×2), lampstand Zc 4:2(×2), h.p.’s robe, מְעִיל, Ex 28:32(P), ר׳ פִּנָּה ψ 118:22 top of (the) corner, i.e. most conspicuous stone (fig.); = tip, end, of staves 1 K 8:8=2 Ch 5:9, of sceptre Est 5:2. e.g. Genesis 8:5
- b. height of stars Jb 22:12 (‖ גֹּבַהּ שָׁמַיִם). e.g. Job 22:12
3.
- a. head = chief (man) Ju 10:18; 11:8, 9, 11; Ex 18:25 (E), Nu 1:16 (P), Dt 1:15; Ho 2:2; Mi 3:1 + often; appar. combined with idea of first in a series 1 Ch 12:10 (van d. H. v 9, series of 11); of God 2 Ch 13:12. e.g. Judges 10:18
- b. = chief (city) Jos 11:10 (D), cf. (of city and king) Is 7:8(×2), 9(×2). e.g. Joshua 11:10
- c. chief nation Je 31:7. e.g. Jeremiah 31:7
- d. = chief (place, position) 1 S 9:22; 1 K 21:9, 12; Dt 20:9; 1 Ch 4:42 (cf. also 5). e.g. 1 Samuel 9:22
- e. כֹּהֵן הָרֹאשׁ chief priest 2 K 25:18 = Je 52:24; 2 Ch 19:11; 24:11; 26:20, הַכֹּהֵן רֹאשׁ 1 Ch 27:5, הַכּ׳ הָר׳ 2 Ch 31:10; Ezr 7:5; ר׳ alone 2 Ch 24:6; רָאשֵׁי הַכֹּהֲנִים Ne 12:7. e.g. 2 Kings 25:18
- f. especially = head of a family (P Chr); רָאשֵׁי בֵּית (rare רֹאשׁ) אֲבוֹתָ(ם) Ex 6:14; Nu 7:2; 17:18; Jos 22:14; 1 Ch 5:24; 7:7, 9; ר׳ בֵּית הָאָבוֹת v 40; ר׳ לְבֵית אֲבֹתָיו Nu 1:4, cf. 1 Ch 5:15, 24; 7:2; 9:13; 24:4; ר׳ אֻמּוֹת בֵּית־אָב Nu 25:15; ר׳ אֲבוֹת הָעֵדָה 31:26 cf. 32:28 Jos 14:1; 21:1; ר׳ אֲבוֹת הַלְוִיִּם Ex 6:25; Jos 21:1; ר׳ (הָ)אָבוֹת לַלְּוִיִּם 1 Ch 9:33, 34; 15:12, cf. Nu 36:1; Jos 19:51; 1 Ch 8:6, 13; 23:9, 24 + 10 times Chr.; abs. ר׳ (הָ)אָבוֹת 1 Ch 8:10, 28; 9:9; 26:32; 27:1; 2 Ch 1:2 + 8 times Ezr Ne (Chr); ר׳ אֲבֹתֵיהֶם Ezr 8:1; רָאשִׁים לְאָבוֹת Ne 11:13; so also ר׳ alone 1 Ch 5:7, 12; 7:3; 8:28 +; appar. combined with idea of first in a series 23:8 (series of 3), v 11 (of 4), v 19 (of 3), v 20 (of 2). e.g. Exodus 6:14
4.
- a. head = front, leader’s place Mi 2:13; 2 Ch 20:27, cf. Am 6:7. e.g. Micah 2:13
- b. of time, beginning, of night-watch Ju 7:19; La 2:19; abs. מֵרֹאשׁ from the beginning Is 40:21; 41:4, 26 (‖ מִלְּפָנִים), 48:16; Pr 8:23 (‖ מֵעוֹלָם), Ec 3:11 (‖ עַד־סוֹף); first of months Ex 12:2 (‖ רִאשׁוֹן), Nu 10:10; 28:11 (all P); בָּרֹאשׁ 1 Ch 16:7 at first. e.g. Judges 7:19
- c. of things, river-heads Gn 2:10 (J); ר׳ עַפְרוֹת תֵּבֵל Pr 8:26. e.g. Genesis 2:10
5. chief, choicest, best, of spices, בשׂמ(ים), Ez 27:22; Ex 30:23 (P), Ct 4:14; ר׳ שִׂמְחָתִי ψ 137:6 the choicest of my joy. e.g. Ezekiel 27:22
6. head = division of army, company, band: Ju 7:16, 20; 9:34, 37, 43, 44(×2); 1 S 11:11; 13:17(×2), 18(×2); Jb 1:17. e.g. Judges 7:16
7. = sum, especially in phr. נָשָׂא אֶת־ר׳ בְּנֵי־יִשׂ׳ Ex 30:12 take the sum of, enumerate, cf. Nu 1:2, 49; 4:2, 22; 26:2; 31:26, 49; בְּרֹאשׁוֹ Lv 5:24 in its sum, i.e. in full, so Nu 5:7 (all P); of י׳’s thoughts ψ 139:17; cf. רֹאשׁ דְּבָֽרְךָ אֱמֶת 119:160. 8. other phr. are: נָשָׂא אֶת־רֹאשׁ פ׳ v. נָשָׂא Qal 1 b (2); יָרוּם רֹאשִׁי עַל־אֹיְבַי ψ 27:6, י׳ מֵרִים רֹאשִׁי 3:4 (ψ 110:7; 140:10 v. רום); shake the head, v. נוּעַ Hiph., cf. יָנִיד בְּרֹאשׁוֹ Je 8:16, מְנוֹד רֹאשׁ ψ 44:15; נָתַן דֶּרֶךְ בְּרֹאשׁ, i.e. requite, v. נתן Qal 2 b ad fin.; יָשׁוּב גְּמֻלְךָ בְּר׳ Ob 15, cf. ψ 7:17 1 K 2:33 (sub דָּם 2 i), and (c. עַל־ר׳) Est 9:25, הֵשִׁיב רָעָה בְּרֹאשׁ Ju 9:57; 1 S 25:39; 1 K 2:44, cf. Jo 4:4, 7; 1 K 2:32 (sub דָּם 2 i), cf. Ne 3:36 (אֶל־רֹאשָׁם), v. also 2 S 3:29 sub I. חוּל 3; see, further, דָּם 2 i; Dn 1:10 v. חוּב Pi. e.g. Exodus 30:12

ראש II and (†Dt 32

1. a bitter and poisonous herb, + (or ‖) לַעֲנָה Dt 29:17; La 3:19, so (מֵי רֹאשׁ) Je 9:14; 23:15; מֵי ר׳ (without ל׳) 8:14; עִנְּבֵי־רוֹשׁ Dt 32:32 (‖ מְרֹרֹת); רֹאשׁ וּתְלָאָה La 3:5; ר׳ alone ψ 69:22; וּפָרַח כָּרֹאשׁ מִשְׁפָּט Ho 10:4, הֲפַכְתֶּם לְר׳ מִשְׁפָּט Am 6:12. e.g. Deuteronomy 29:17
2. venom, of serpents, ר׳ פְּתָנִים Dt 32:33; Jb 20:16. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:33

ראש III son of Benj.

ראש IV Rôsh (so 𝔊 and most

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.

Word origin

I. n.m. Lv 13:45 head (common Sem. word; earliest form *ra’š, Arabic رَأْسٌ, Sab. ראס PräZMG xxix (1875), 425 MordtmHim. Inschr. 31; Ethiopic ርእስ: Amh. ራስ: hence (a heightened) Assyrian rêšu (rarely râšu), Aramaic רֵישָׁא (Egyptian Aramaic ראשׁ CookeNorth-Sem. Inscr. 404), ܪܺܝܫܳܐ, mod. raïša, HuartJAs xii (1878), 491 Duvalid. xiii (1879), 464; Palm. רשׁא, Lzb366, cf. BH רִישׁוֹן, רֵאשִׁית; from *ra’š, also BH *רָאשׁ, רֹאשׁ (LagSymm. i. 113), TelAm. rušu(nu) Wkl 189, 18 (gloss to ḳaḳḳadunu), NH = BH; SI6 ראש, Ph. רש, ראש (in n.pr.), Pun. rus (in n.pr.loc.) SchrödPh. Spr. 133, ראשת choicest, chief; on MI20 (sf.) רשה, l.28 ש[ר], cf. Sm. u. So14 NöLCB Jan. 8, 1887, 60);—ר׳ abs. Gn 3:15 +, cstr. 40:20 +; sf. רֹאשִׁי v 16 +, etc.; pl. *רָאשִׁים (for רְאָשִׁם NöGGA 1884, 1019) Ex 18:25 +; cstr. רָאשֵׁי Ho 7:13 + [מֵרַאֲשֹׁתֵי 1 S 26:12 v. מְרַאֲשׁוֹת infr.]; sf. רָאשֵׁינוּ 1 Ch 12:19, רָאשֵׁיכֶם Is 29:10 +, etc.;—

II. and (†Dt 32:32) רוֹשׁ n.m. Dt 32:33 a bitter and poisonous herb, then venom, always fig.;—

III. n.m. son of Benj.;—Gn 46:21, Ρως.

IV. n.pr.gent. Rôsh (so 𝔊 and most; > chief Ew Sm al. (𝔙 principem capitis) Mosoch);—only in phr. נְשִׂיא רֹאשׁ (אֶרֶץ מָגוֹג) גּוֹג מֶשֶׁךְ וְתֻבָ֑ל Ez 38:2, 3; 39:1, Ρως; not identified.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 2097

Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

רָאשׁ

poor, v. רָשׁ.

רֹאשׁ

(b. h.) head, point; beginning, heading; main thing, principal. Ḥull. IV, 1 הוציא את רֹאשׁוֹ וכ׳ if the embryo put forth its head, although it withdrew it again. Gen. R. s. 71, beg., v. סוֹף. Midr. Prov. to I, 7 ר׳ הפרק ר׳ המסכתא ר׳ הפרשה the heading of a chapter, of a treatise, of a section.—ר׳ החדש, ר׳ השנה &c., v. respective determinants.—Meg. 12ᵇ קופץ בר׳, v. הֶדְיוֹט.—בת ר׳, v. בַּת II.—Sifra B’ḥuck., Par. 2, ch. VIII (ref. to יען וביען, Lev. XXVI, 43) וכי ר׳ בר׳ פרעתי מהם וכ׳ did I collect from them full amount for full amount? did I not collect only one hundredth of their sins before me? Snh. 3ᵃ sq. ממון שאינו משתלם בר׳ הוא an indemnity not for the exact amount (more or less). B. Kam. 65ᵇ (ref. to Lev. V, 24) ממון … בר׳ מוסיף חומש וכ׳ where the indemnity is for the full amount (and no more), the fine of a fifth is added, but where it is not for the exact amount (but more) &c.; a. v. fr.—מֵר׳ from the beginning, over again. Ab. Zar. 3ᵃ תנה לנו מר׳ וכ׳ give us it (the Law) over again, and we will observe it.—Pl. רָאשִׁים, רָאשִׁין. Ḥull. II, 2 השוחט שני ר׳ כאחד if one cuts two heads at one time. Ḥag. 13ᵃ רָאשֵׁי פרקים, v. פֶּרֶק; a. fr.—Trnsf. a) chief, magistrate, leader, president. Y. R. Hash. I, 57ᵇ bot. ר׳ גדר היה וכ׳ it was the chief magistrate of Gadara &c., v. רֵאשִׁית; Bab. R. Hash. 22ᵃ שזפר ראשָׁהּ וכ׳ Sh. the chief &c. Sabb. 33ᵇ; Ber. 63ᵇ, v. מְדַבֵּר. Ib. 57ᵇ, v. יְשִׁיבָה. Y. Hor. III, 48ᵇ bot. ר׳ משמר the chief of the Temple guard; ר׳ בית אב the chief of a priestly family. Ib. [read:] ר׳ וזקן ר׳ קודם שאינו ר׳ וכ׳ as between the chief (the Nasi, of the academy) and an elder (scholar), the chief has the precedence, for none can be chief unless he has been an elder; a. v. fr.—Pl. as ab. Ib. משה הקדים ר׳ לזקנים Moses placed the chiefs before the elders (Deut. XXIX, 9). Gen. R. s. 61 כולהון ראשי אומות הן they are all (names derived from) tribal chiefs (v. לוּפָר, a. correct citation acc.); a. fr.—b) crossbeam. Neg. XIII, 2, v. פָּתִין.—Pl. as ab. Ib. נראה בר׳ Bab. ed. (Mish. ed. sing.) if the leprous spot appeared on the crossbeams.—c) ר׳ תּוֹר (Chaldaism) [ox-head,] triangle, wedge. Kel. XVIII, 2 כיצד … ר׳ ת׳ how is a piece of furniture with an arched top-piece measured? By drawing an equilateral triangle circumscribing the curve. Kil. II, 7 היה ר׳ ת׳ חטים וכ׳ if a triangular point of a wheat field is wedged in a barley field. Ib. III, 3. B. Bath. 62ᵃ (if the seller defined the limits of his field by describing one long side and one short side) ויקנה כנגד ר׳ ת׳ why not let the buyer have possession of an ‘ox-head’, i.e. draw a trapezoid with the two unequal sides?—Pl. רָאשֵׁי תוֹרִין. Y. Erub. I, 19ᶜ bot. e.g. Leviticus 26:43

רֹאשׁ ²

ch., v. רֵישׁ II

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Forms in the corpus

The 203 distinct written forms H7218 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
רֹ֣אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Deuteronomy 3:27	56
רֹ֥אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Amos 1:2	30
רָאשֵׁ֣י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Deuteronomy 1:15	24
בְּ/רֹ֣אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Amos 2:7	19
רֹאשׁ֑/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Esther 9:25	17
רָאשֵׁ֥י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Deuteronomy 5:23	15
רֹאשׁ֔/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Exodus 26:24	14
רֹ֖אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Ezekiel 38:2	12
הָ/רֹ֔אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Ezra 8:17	11
לְ/רֹ֣אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Deuteronomy 33:16	10
רֹאשֽׁ/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Exodus 29:17	9
רֹ֤אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Genesis 48:14	8
בְּ/רֹ֥אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Deuteronomy 20:9	8
רָאשֵׁ֨י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Hosea 4:13	8
רֹאשׁ֖/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Exodus 28:32	8
רֹאשִׁ֑/י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Ezekiel 8:3	8
רֹ֛אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Genesis 40:20	7
רָאשֵׁ֤י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Ezekiel 1:22	7
רָאשֵׁי֙	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	1 Chronicles 7:7	6
רֹאשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Genesis 48:17	6
רֹאשׁ֙	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Jeremiah 52:31	5
הָ/רֹ֖אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	1 Chronicles 16:5	5
רָאשִׁ֑ים	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute	Ezra 8:16	5
רָאשֵׁ֖י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	1 Chronicles 7:40	5
רָאשֵׁי/הֶ֖ם	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Exodus 38:17	5
רֹאשִֽׁ/י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Genesis 40:16	5
רֹאשָׁ֑/ם	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Ezekiel 1:25	5
וְ/רֹ֥אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	1 Samuel 17:57	4
בְּ/רֹאשׁ֑/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	1 Kings 8:32	4
הָ/רֹ֑אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	1 Chronicles 12:9	4
הָ/רֹֽאשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Ezra 7:5	4
לְ/רֹֽאשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	1 Chronicles 11:6	4
רָאשִׁ֖ים	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute	Deuteronomy 1:15	4
רָאשֵׁ֛י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Exodus 6:25	4
רָאשֵׁ֧י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct	Ezra 10:16	4
רֹֽאשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Esther 6:12	4
רֹאשׁ֗/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	1 Kings 2:32	4
רֹאשָׁ֔/הּ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Deuteronomy 21:12	4
רֹאשָׁ֔/ם	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Ezekiel 1:26	4
רֹאשָֽׁ/ם	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Jeremiah 14:3	4
וְ/רֹאשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	1 Kings 10:19	3
לְ/רֹאשׁ֙	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 28:13	3
רֹ֧אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Joshua 22:14	3
בְּ/רֹאשׁ֔/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Ecclesiastes 2:14	3
בְּ/רֹאשֽׁ/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Esther 6:8	3
הָ/רֹ֨אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	1 Chronicles 12:3	3
הָ/רֹאשׁ֙	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Ezekiel 10:11	3
לְ/רֹ֔אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 28:44	3
מֵ/רֹ֤אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Ezekiel 17:22	3
רֹ֚אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Deuteronomy 34:1	3
רֹאשׁ/וֹ֙	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	1 Samuel 14:45	3
רֹאשׁ֛/וֹ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	2 Samuel 20:21	3
רֹאשִׁ֔/י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	2 Kings 6:32	3
רֹאשִׁ֖/י	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	Daniel 1:10	3
רֹאשֶׁ֑/ךָ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct	2 Kings 2:3	3
בְּ/רֹ֖אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Leviticus 13:29	2
לְ/רֹ֖אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	1 Chronicles 11:6	2
מֵ/רֹ֖אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Isaiah 40:21	2
מֵ/רֹ֥אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Ecclesiastes 3:11	2
רֹ֗אשׁ	Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	2 Samuel 23:13	2

The 60 most common forms are shown; 143 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.

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ראש Rôʼsh H7220 Rosh

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 511 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 547 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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