marashah (head) · Rightly

Meaning

Place at the head, dominion, head place
At head place

How it's translated

place of head his 6
place of head its 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Samuel 5
Genesis 2
1 Kings 1

3 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 28:18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
1 Samuel 19:13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
1 Samuel 19:16And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
1 Samuel 26:7So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel 26:11The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
1 Samuel 26:16This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.

All 8 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 28:11 28:18
1 Samuel 5: 19:13 19:16 26:7 26:11 26:16
1 Kings 1: 19:6

Hebrew dictionary

מְרַאֲשָׁוֹת marashah · head

1) place at the head, dominion, head place adv 2) at head place

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “head” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HEAD, noun

hed.

The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals.
An animal; an individual; as, the tax was raised by a certain rate per head And we use the singular number to express many.
A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place, and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party. Ephesians 5:23
The first place; the place of honor, or of command.

All definitions and other forms of “head”

Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head to show the head
Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head or a strong head These men laid their heads together to form the scheme.
Face; front; forepart.
Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.
Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head on their own head But of is more usual than on.
State of a deer's horns by which his age is known.
The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.
The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also, the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.
The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.
That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.
The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.
The brain.
The dress of the head; as a laced head [Unusual.]
The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.
Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels.
Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.
Crisis; pitch; highth.
Influence; force; strength; pitch.
Body; conflux.
Power; armed force.
Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head Hence,
License; freedom from check, control or restraint.
The hair of the head; as a head of hair.
The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.
The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.
The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.
The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head is to suppurate.

HEAD, verb transitive

hed. To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.

To behead; to decapitate. [Unusual.]
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
To lop; as, to head trees.
To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.
To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship; as, the wind heads us.

HEAD, verb intransitive

hed. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.