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רֹאשָׁהStrong’s H7222roshah (ro-shah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Roshah is the Hebrew word usually translated “top”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.”
Meaning
- Top, topmost
How it's translated
- top 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
רֹאשָׁה roshah · top
top, topmost
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “top” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOP, noun
- The highest part of any thing; the upper end, edge or extremity; as the top of a tree; the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain.
- Surface; upper side; as the top of the ground.
- The highest place; as the top of preferment.
- The highest person; the chief.
All definitions and other forms of “top”
- The utmost degree.
- The highest rank.
- The crown or upper surface of the head.
- The hair on the crown of the head; the forelock.
- The head of a plant.
- An inverted conoid which children play with by whirling it on its point, continuing the motion with a whip.
- In ship-building, a sort of platform, surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sides.
TOP'-ARMOR, noun
In ships, a railing on the top supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
TOP'-BLOCK, noun
In ships, a block hung to an eye-bolt in the cap, used in swaying and lowering the top-mast.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.