rô’sh 'head, chief' 'Hebrew Thoughts' from Jonathan Went The word r($ rô’sh "head, chief, top, beginning" (Strong's #7218, x598) occurs nearly 600 times and is common to most semitic languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Canaanite, Ethiopic, Moabite etc.It is translated predominantly by "head" in about half of its near 750 uses (including derivatives), both literally and figuratively, as ...