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Ezra 2:68
“And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7218 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
- Derivation
- from an unused root apparently meaning to shake;
- KJV renderings
- band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מֵ — preposition
- רָאשֵׁי֙ — common noun, masculine, plural, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 600 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:10Genesis 3:15Genesis 8:5Genesis 11:4Genesis 28:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רֹאשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.