Resh רֵאשׁ

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Resh
רֵאשׁ
Transliterationresh
Strong's numberH7217
LanguageAramaic
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosshead
Occurrences14 in 13 verses
Most frequent inDaniel (12)

Resh (Aramaic רֵאשׁ, Strong's H7217) is an Aramaic masculine noun meaning “head”. It occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) chief, head
1a) head (of man)
1b) head (as seat of visions)
1c) chief
1d) sum (essential content)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVhead (11), chief (1), sum (1), heads (1)
BSBmy mind (4), head (2), came into your mind (1), their heads (1), passed through his mind (1), this is the summary (1), heads (1), his head (1), its head (1)

Verses

Every verse with Resh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Ezra

Daniel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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