Strong's Concordance H7218

Original Word: רֹאשׁ
Transliteration: rôʼsh
Phonetic Spelling: 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.); band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Samuel 4:8 - And they brought the head H7218 of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head H7218 of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

2 Samuel 4:12 - And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head H7218 of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

2 Samuel 5:24 - And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops H7218 of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 12:30 - And he took their king's crown from off his head, H7218 the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. H7218 And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

2 Samuel 13:19 - And Tamar put ashes on her head, H7218 and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, H7218 and went on crying.

2 Samuel 14:26 - And when he polled his head, H7218 (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head H7218 at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

2 Samuel 15:30 - And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head H7218 covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, H7218 and they went up, weeping as they went up.

2 Samuel 15:32 - And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top H7218 of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: H7218

2 Samuel 16:1 - And when David was a little past the top H7218 of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

2 Samuel 16:9 - Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. H7218

2 Samuel 18:9 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head H7218 caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

2 Samuel 20:21 - The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head H7218 shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

2 Samuel 20:22 - Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head H7218 of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

2 Samuel 22:44 - Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head H7218 of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

2 Samuel 23:8 - These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief H7218 among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

2 Samuel 23:13 - And three of the thirty chief H7218 went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 23:18 - And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief H7218 among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

1 Kings 2:32 - And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, H7218 who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

1 Kings 2:33 - Their blood shall therefore return upon the head H7218 of Joab, and upon the head H7218 of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

1 Kings 2:37 - For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. H7218

1 Kings 2:44 - The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; H7218

1 Kings 7:16 - And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops H7218 of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

1 Kings 7:17 - And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top H7218 of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

1 Kings 7:18 - And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, H7218 with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

1 Kings 7:19 - And the chapiters that were upon the top H7218 of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

1 Kings 7:22 - And upon the top H7218 of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

1 Kings 7:35 - And in the top H7218 of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top H7218 of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

1 Kings 7:41 - The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top H7218 of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top H7218 of the pillars;

1 Kings 8:1 - Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads H7218 of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

1 Kings 8:8 - And they drew out the staves, that the ends H7218 of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

1 Kings 8:32 - Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; H7218 and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 10:19 - The throne had six steps, and the top H7218 of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

1 Kings 18:42 - So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top H7218 of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

1 Kings 20:31 - And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, H7218 and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

1 Kings 20:32 - So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, H7218 and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

1 Kings 21:9 - And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high H7218 among the people:

1 Kings 21:12 - They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high H7218 among the people.

2 Kings 1:9 - Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top H7218 of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

2 Kings 2:3 - And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head H7218 to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

2 Kings 2:5 - And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head H7218 to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

2 Kings 4:19 - And he said unto his father, My head, H7218 my head. H7218 And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

2 Kings 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head H7218 was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6:31 - Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head H7218 of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

2 Kings 6:32 - But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? H7218 look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

2 Kings 9:3 - Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, H7218 and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

2 Kings 9:6 - And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, H7218 and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

2 Kings 9:30 - And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, H7218 and looked out at a window.

2 Kings 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads H7218 of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

2 Kings 10:7 - And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads H7218 in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:8 - And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads H7218 of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.