רֹאשׁ

Derivation

from an unused root apparently meaning to shake;

Meaning

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

In the King James Version

band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.

Translated as

head (238), chief (91), heads (77), top (64), beginning (12), tops (8), sum (8), captains (6), companies (6), first (6), principal (5), company (5), chapiters (4), captain (4), men (4), high (3), beginnings (2), ends (2), bands (2), it (1)

Where it appears

Found in 512 verses

Genesis

3:15, 8:5, 11:4, 28:12, 40:13, 40:19, 40:20, 48:14, 48:17, 49:26

Exodus

6:14, 6:25, 12:2, 12:9, 17:9, 17:10, 18:25, 19:20, 24:17, 26:24, 28:32, 29:6, 29:7, 29:10, 29:15, 29:19, 30:12, 30:23, 34:2, 36:29 + 4 more

Leviticus

1:4, 1:8, 1:12, 1:15, 3:2, 3:8, 3:13, 4:4, 4:11, 4:15, 4:24, 4:29, 4:33, 5:8, 6:5, 8:9, 8:12, 8:14, 8:18, 8:20 + 17 more

Numbers

1:2, 1:4, 1:16, 1:49, 4:2, 4:22, 5:7, 5:18, 6:5, 6:9, 6:11, 6:18, 7:2, 8:12, 10:4, 10:10, 13:3, 14:4, 14:40, 14:44 + 15 more

Deuteronomy

1:15, 3:27, 5:23, 20:9, 21:12, 28:13, 28:23, 28:44, 29:10, 32:42, 33:5, 33:15, 33:16, 33:21, 34:1

Joshua

2:19, 11:10, 14:1, 15:8, 15:9, 19:51, 21:1, 22:14, 22:21, 22:30, 23:2, 24:1

Judges

5:26, 5:30, 6:26, 7:16, 7:19, 7:20, 7:25, 8:28, 9:7, 9:25, 9:36, 9:37, 9:43, 9:44, 9:53, 9:57, 10:18, 11:8, 11:11, 13:5 + 5 more

1 Samuel

1:11, 4:12, 5:4, 9:22, 10:1, 11:11, 13:17, 13:18, 14:45, 15:17, 17:5, 17:38, 17:46, 17:51, 17:54, 17:57, 25:39, 26:13, 28:2, 29:4 + 1 more

2 Samuel

1:2, 1:10, 1:16, 2:16, 2:25, 3:8, 3:29, 4:7, 4:8, 4:12, 5:24, 12:30, 13:19, 14:26, 15:30, 15:32, 16:1, 16:9, 18:9, 20:21 + 5 more

1 Kings

2:32, 2:33, 2:37, 2:44, 7:16, 7:17, 7:18, 7:19, 7:22, 7:35, 7:41, 8:1, 8:8, 8:32, 10:19, 18:42, 20:31, 20:32, 21:9, 21:12

2 Kings

1:9, 2:3, 2:5, 4:19, 6:25, 6:31, 6:32, 9:3, 9:6, 9:30, 10:6, 10:7, 10:8, 19:21, 25:18, 25:27

1 Chronicles

4:42, 5:7, 5:12, 5:15, 5:24, 7:2, 7:3, 7:7, 7:9, 7:11, 7:40, 8:6, 8:10, 8:13, 8:28, 9:9, 9:13, 9:17, 9:33, 9:34 + 43 more

2 Chronicles

1:2, 3:15, 3:16, 4:12, 5:2, 5:9, 6:23, 11:22, 13:12, 19:8, 19:11, 20:27, 23:2, 24:6, 24:11, 25:12, 26:12, 26:20, 28:12, 31:10

Ezra

1:5, 2:68, 3:12, 4:2, 4:3, 7:5, 7:28, 8:1, 8:16, 8:17, 9:3, 9:6, 10:16

Nehemiah

4:4, 7:70, 7:71, 8:13, 9:17, 10:14, 11:3, 11:13, 11:16, 11:17, 12:7, 12:12, 12:22, 12:23, 12:24, 12:46

Esther

2:17, 5:2, 6:12, 9:25

Job

1:17, 1:20, 2:12, 10:15, 12:24, 16:4, 20:6, 22:12, 24:24, 29:3, 29:25, 41:7

Psalms

7:16, 18:43, 23:5, 24:7, 24:9, 27:6, 38:4, 40:12, 44:14, 60:7, 66:12, 68:21, 69:4, 72:16, 74:13, 74:14, 108:8, 110:6, 118:22, 119:160 + 5 more

Proverbs

1:9, 1:21, 4:9, 8:2, 8:23, 8:26, 10:6, 11:26, 13:23, 23:34, 25:22

Ecclesiastes

2:14, 3:11, 9:8

Song of Solomon

2:6, 4:8, 4:14, 5:2, 5:11, 7:5, 8:3

Isaiah

1:5, 1:6, 2:2, 7:8, 7:9, 7:20, 9:14, 9:15, 15:2, 17:6, 19:15, 28:1, 28:4, 29:10, 30:17, 35:10, 37:22, 40:21, 41:4, 41:26 + 6 more

Jeremiah

2:37, 9:1, 13:21, 22:6, 23:19, 30:23, 31:7, 48:37, 52:24, 52:31

Lamentations

1:5, 2:10, 2:15, 2:19, 3:54, 4:1, 5:16

Ezekiel

1:22, 1:25, 1:26, 5:1, 6:13, 8:3, 10:1, 10:11, 11:21, 13:18, 16:25, 16:31, 16:43, 17:4, 17:22, 21:19, 21:21, 22:31, 23:15, 24:23 + 12 more

Daniel

1:10

Hosea

1:11, 4:13

Joel

2:5

Amos

1:2, 2:7, 6:7, 8:10, 9:1, 9:3

Jonah

4:6, 4:8

Micah

3:1, 3:9, 3:11, 4:1

Nahum

3:10

Habakkuk

3:13, 3:14

Zechariah

1:21, 3:5, 4:2, 6:11