רֵאשׁ
resh (H7218A)
head
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# Rēsh (Head): A Foundational Hebrew Term The Hebrew word *rēsh* refers to the head and appears 283 times throughout the biblical text, making it one of the most frequently used anatomical terms in Hebrew Scripture. This high frequency suggests that the concept of "head" held considerable importance in biblical thought and discourse. The straightforward definition—"head"—indicates a primary, literal anatomical reference, though the word's prevalence invites consideration of how such a basic physical term might extend into figurative or symbolic domains across such a large corpus of text. The sheer number of occurrences (283) across the biblical canon indicates that *rēsh* functioned as a fundamental vocabulary item essential to Hebrew expression. Whether used literally to refer to the physical head or potentially in other contexts, its pervasiveness demonstrates that concepts related to the head were central to how biblical writers described physical reality, human relationships, and possibly abstract ideas. This frequency places *rēsh* among the core vocabulary of biblical Hebrew, comparable in importance to other basic anatomical and spatial terms that form the foundation of any language's descriptive capacity.
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I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
“You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
“You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
“You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung
The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.
He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.
He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar.
Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’
It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
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