רֵאשׁ
rêʼsh · H7217 · Aramaic · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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head
Upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs
ExamplesDaniel 2:28 “However, there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.
Daniel 2:32 “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
Daniel 2:38 and wherever the sons of mankind live, or the animals of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has handed them over to you and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.
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head, chief, leader
Literally: head; hence: the person in leadership of a group of people, or, by extension, the most important object among a set of objects
ExamplesEzra 5:10 “We also asked them their names so as to inform you, in order that we might write down the names of the men who were in charge.
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sum
The parts of an event that is more important than other parts
ExamplesDaniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and told the following summary of it.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
12 occurrences in 6 groups
- יmy 4
- הוּhis 3
- הֶםtheir 2
- מִלָּהcommandment 1
- ךָyour 1
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דְּהַבgold 1
- אַרְבַּעfour 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאare 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲמַרto say 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דְּהַבgold 1
- חֵיוָאbeast 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֲתָרִיםAtharim 1
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- חֵזֵוvision 6
- שְׂעַרhair 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- κεφαλή kephalḗ · G2776 · head, one who is the head of, one who is superior to
- Greek κεφαλή translates Aramaic רֵאשׁ in contexts denoting physical head, leadership position, or chief/principal element, representing the standard LXX equivalent for this semantic field across both literal anatomical and metaphorical hierarchical senses.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Leaders001001003005
- Daniel 2:38 recounts that God told Nebuchadnezzar, “wherever the sons of mankind live, or the animals of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has handed them over to you and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.”
- Extraordinary002001003006
- Daniel 2:32 has Daniel interpret the statue's parts, “the head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze.”
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7217. resh רֵאשׁ noun masculineDan 7:6 head (Egyptian Aramaic, S-CPap.; Palmyrene רש;…
רֵאשׁ noun masculineDan 7:6 head (Egyptian Aramaic, S-CPap.; Palmyrene רש; רֵישׁ ᵑ7, Syriac ; Biblical Hebrew ראֹשׁ); — construct ׳ר Dan 7:1; emphatic הָ֯ Dan 2:38; suffix רֵאשׁי Dan 4:2 +, חָ֯ Dan 2:28, הֵּ֯ Dan 2:32 +, הַּ֯ Dan 7:20, הֵ֯וֺן Dan 3:27; plural absolute רֵאשִׁין Dan 7:6, suffix רָאשֵׁיהֹם (K§§ 53, Anm. b); 63 GuHpt on the passage) Ezr 5:10; —
1 head of man Dan 3:27, compare Dan 7:9; in vision: of image Dan 2:32, Dan 2:38, beast Dan 7:6, Dan 7:20.
2 head as seat of visions, רֵאשָׁךְ הֶזְוֵי, etc., Dan 2:28; Dan 4:2; Dan 4:7; Dan 4:10; Dan 7:1, Dan 7:15.
3 = chief, ׳בְּר Ezr 5:10 in the capacity of their chiefs.
4 sum, essential content, of matters Dan 7:1 (NesMM 40 beginning).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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