Strong's H7218 · Hebrew

ro'sh

roshe

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.)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H7218a

H7218a רֹאשׁ . . (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. H7218b רֹאשׁ n. pr. gent . Rôsh

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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