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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - רֹאשׁ

רֹאשׁ

H7218

Transliteration: rôʼsh

Pronunciation: roshe

Definition: band


Original: ראשׁ

Transliteration: rô'sh

Phonetic: roshe

BDB Definition:

  1. head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning
    1. head (of man, animals)
    2. top, tip (of mountain)
    3. height (of stars)
    4. chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)
    5. head, front, beginning
    6. chief, choicest, best
    7. head, division, company, band
    8. sum

Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake

TWOT entry: 2097

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine


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