1. רֹאשׁ
Rôsh
The corpus record — Hebrew
רָאשִֽׁים
rosh · n.pr.gent
Rôsh
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 600 · 19.56/10k
Senses
2. רֹאשׁ
head, head, top, height
3. רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Attestations
- רָאשִֽׁים Genesis 2:10 (BHS)
- רֹ֔אשׁ Genesis 3:15 (BHS)
- רָאשֵׁ֥י Genesis 8:5 (BHS)
- וְ/רֹאשׁ֣/וֹ Genesis 11:4 (BHS)
- וְ/רֹאשׁ֖/וֹ Genesis 28:12 (BHS)
- רֹאשָֽׁ/הּ Genesis 28:18 (BHS)
6 of 600 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.