רֹאשׁ

rosh

Hebrew H7218 Noun, masculine 599 occurrences in 547 verses

רֹאשׁ head

1. head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning

a. head (of man, animals)

b. top, tip (of mountain)

c. height (of stars)

d. chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)

e. head, front, beginning

f. chief, choicest, best

g. head, division, company, band

h. sum

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

Translation

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Concordance 547 verses

2 Samuel 4:8 רֹ֨אשׁרֹ֣אשׁ

They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
2 Samuel 4:12 רֹ֤אשׁ

So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
2 Samuel 5:24 בְּרָאשֵׁ֥י

As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the LORD has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
2 Samuel 12:30 רֹאשׁ֜וֹרֹ֣אשׁ

Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
2 Samuel 13:19 רֹאשָׁ֔הּרֹאשָׁ֔הּ

And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.
2 Samuel 14:26 רֹאשׁוֹ֒רֹאשׁ֔וֹ

And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
2 Samuel 15:30 וְרֹ֥אשׁרֹאשׁ֔וֹ

But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
2 Samuel 15:32 הָרֹ֔אשׁרֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
2 Samuel 16:1 מֵֽהָרֹ֔אשׁ

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 16:9 רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃ס

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!”
2 Samuel 18:9 רֹאשׁ֣וֹ

Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
2 Samuel 20:21 רֹאשׁ֛וֹ

That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
2 Samuel 20:22 רֹ֨אשׁ

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 22:44 לְרֹ֣אשׁ

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
2 Samuel 23:8 רֹ֣אשׁ

These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.
2 Samuel 23:13 רֹ֗אשׁ

At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 23:18 רֹ֣אשׁ

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab and son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Three, and he lifted his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name along with the Three.
1 Kings 2:32 רֹאשׁ֗וֹ

The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
1 Kings 2:33 בְּרֹ֣אשׁוּבְרֹ֥אשׁ

Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”
1 Kings 2:37 בְרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃

On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”
1 Kings 2:44 בְּרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃

The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.
1 Kings 7:16 רָאשֵׁ֥י

He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
1 Kings 7:17 רֹ֣אשׁ

For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.
1 Kings 7:18 רֹ֣אשׁ

Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.
1 Kings 7:19 רֹ֣אשׁ

And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
1 Kings 7:22 רֹ֥אשׁ

And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
1 Kings 7:35 וּבְרֹ֣אשׁרֹ֤אשׁ

At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.
1 Kings 7:41 רֹ֥אשׁרֹ֥אשׁ

the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;
1 Kings 8:1 רָאשֵׁ֣י

At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
1 Kings 8:8 רָאשֵׁ֨י

The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
1 Kings 8:32 בְּרֹאשׁ֑וֹ

then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
1 Kings 10:19 וְרֹאשׁ־

The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.
1 Kings 18:42 רֹ֤אשׁ

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 20:31 בְּרֹאשֵׁ֗נוּ

Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
1 Kings 20:32 בְּרָאשֵׁיהֶ֗ם

So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’” And the king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
1 Kings 21:9 בְּרֹ֥אשׁ

In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
1 Kings 21:12 בְּרֹ֥אשׁ

They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
2 Kings 1:9 רֹ֣אשׁ

Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’”
2 Kings 2:3 רֹאשֶׁ֑ךָ

Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
2 Kings 2:5 רֹאשֶׁ֑ךָ

Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
2 Kings 4:19 רֹאשִׁ֣י׀רֹאשִׁ֑י

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
2 Kings 6:25 רֹאשׁ־

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
2 Kings 6:31 רֹ֣אשׁ

He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”
2 Kings 6:32 רֹאשִׁ֔י

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
2 Kings 9:3 רֹאשׁ֔וֹ

Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”
2 Kings 9:6 רֹאשׁ֑וֹ

So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.
2 Kings 9:30 רֹאשָׁ֔הּ

Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
2 Kings 10:6 רָאשֵׁי֙

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
2 Kings 10:7 רָֽאשֵׁיהֶם֙

And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:8 רָאשֵׁ֣י

When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”