resh (head) · Rightly

Meaning

Chief, headhead (of man) · head (as seat of visions) · chief · sum (essential content)

How it's translated

head my 4
head his 2
at heads their 1
head your 1
head its 1
head the 1
head their 1
head of 1

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

Where it's used most

Daniel 12
Ezra 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 2:32In contextThis image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Daniel 2:38In contextAnd wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
Daniel 4:5In contextI saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Daniel 4:10In contextThus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
Daniel 4:13In contextI saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;

All 13 verses, by book

Ezra 1: 5:10
Daniel 12: 2:28 2:32 2:38 3:27 4:5 4:10 4:13 7:1 7:6 7:9 7:15 7:20

Aramaic dictionary

רֵאשׁ resh · head

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

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.