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Strong's H7218 רֹאשׁ (rosh)

Rosh means “man” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H7218
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 547
Books 35

Strong's H7218 Quick Answer

Strong's H7218 רוֹאשׁ (ro'sh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ro'sh (roshe) n-m. 1. the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) [from an unused root apparently meaning to shake] It has 547 linked Bible usages across 35 books. Visible English usage signals include head, heads, top, tops, and place. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
ro'sh (roshe) n-m. 1. the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) [from an unused root apparently meaning to shake]
Usage
547 linked usages
Books
35 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
head, heads, top, tops, and place

Meaning and Definition

ro'sh (roshe) n-m. 1. the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) [from an unused root apparently meaning to shake] KJV: 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.

Original Word
רוֹאשׁ
Transliteration
ro'sh
Derivation
Root: ראשׁ
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7218. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

head

Usage: : 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

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How Strong's H7218 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ro'sh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

head Genesis 3:15 64× heads Genesis 2:10 15× top Genesis 11:4 place Numbers 14:40 tops Genesis 8:5

How Strong's H7218 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 547 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7218 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H7218 in the Old Testament

547 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 2:10 KJV

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Genesis 3:15 KJV

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 8:5 KJV

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7218.

Genesis 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Genesis 3:15 Old Testament, KJV
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis 11:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 28:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Genesis 40:13 Old Testament, KJV
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Genesis 40:16 Old Testament, KJV
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
Genesis 40:17 Old Testament, KJV
And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Genesis 40:19 Old Testament, KJV
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Genesis 40:20 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis 47:31 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Genesis 48:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48:17 Old Testament, KJV
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Genesis 48:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis 49:26 Old Testament, KJV
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Exodus 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
Exodus 6:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
Exodus 12:2 Old Testament, KJV
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus 12:9 Old Testament, KJV
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exodus 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
Exodus 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Exodus 18:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 19:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Exodus 24:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus 26:24 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus 28:32 Old Testament, KJV
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
Exodus 29:6 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
Exodus 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
Exodus 29:10 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
Exodus 29:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exodus 29:17 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
Exodus 29:19 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exodus 30:12 Old Testament, KJV
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Exodus 30:23 Old Testament, KJV
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Exodus 34:2 Old Testament, KJV
And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus 36:29 Old Testament, KJV
And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
Exodus 36:38 Old Testament, KJV
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Exodus 38:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
Exodus 38:19 Old Testament, KJV
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
Exodus 38:28 Old Testament, KJV
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
Leviticus 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Leviticus 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus 1:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
Leviticus 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
Leviticus 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
Leviticus 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Leviticus 4:33 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
Leviticus 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
Leviticus 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Leviticus 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
Leviticus 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
Leviticus 8:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Leviticus 8:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
Leviticus 8:22 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Leviticus 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
Leviticus 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Leviticus 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
Leviticus 13:29 Old Testament, KJV
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
Leviticus 13:30 Old Testament, KJV
Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Leviticus 13:40 Old Testament, KJV
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Leviticus 13:41 Old Testament, KJV
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
Leviticus 13:44 Old Testament, KJV
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus 13:45 Old Testament, KJV
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Leviticus 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus 16:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Leviticus 19:27 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus 21:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
Leviticus 24:14 Old Testament, KJV
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Numbers 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
Numbers 1:49 Old Testament, KJV
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Numbers 4:2 Old Testament, KJV
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
Numbers 4:22 Old Testament, KJV
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
Numbers 5:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
Numbers 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
Numbers 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
Numbers 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
Numbers 6:9 Old Testament, KJV
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Numbers 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
Numbers 6:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
Numbers 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
Numbers 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
Numbers 10:4 Old Testament, KJV
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
Numbers 10:10 Old Testament, KJV
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
Numbers 13:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Numbers 14:40 Old Testament, KJV
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
Numbers 14:44 Old Testament, KJV
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Numbers 17:3 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
Numbers 20:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers 21:20 Old Testament, KJV
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward jeshimon.
Numbers 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Numbers 25:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
Numbers 26:2 Old Testament, KJV
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Numbers 28:11 Old Testament, KJV
And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
Numbers 30:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
Numbers 31:26 Old Testament, KJV
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
Numbers 31:49 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
Numbers 32:28 Old Testament, KJV
So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Numbers 36:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:
Deuteronomy 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy 1:15 Old Testament, KJV
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
Deuteronomy 3:27 Old Testament, KJV
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7218, grouped by book.

Genesis 16 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 25 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 38 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 36 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 16 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 13 usages, Old Testament
Judges 27 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 21 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 25 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 20 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 16 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 63 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 20 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 13 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 16 usages, Old Testament
Esther 5 usages, Old Testament
Job 13 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 32 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 10 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 3 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 7 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 26 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 13 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 7 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 38 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Old Testament
Amos 6 usages, Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jonah 3 usages, Old Testament
Micah 5 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 4 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H7218 FAQ

What does rosh (רֹאשׁ) mean?

Rosh (Strong's H7218) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "man". ro'sh (roshe) n-m. 1. the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) [from an unused root apparently meaning to shake]

How many times is rosh (רֹאשׁ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 547 linked usages for Strong's H7218 across 35 books.

Where can I study rosh (רֹאשׁ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7218 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate rosh (רֹאשׁ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as head, heads, top, tops, and place. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.