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rosh H7218

רֹאשׁ (rosh) means “head” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

רֹאשׁ Hebrew · H7218 599 tagged occurrences in 547 verses

Pronunciation guide: roshe Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7218A

רֹאשׁ · rosh · head

: head 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning 1a) head (of man, animals) 1b) top, tip (of mountain) 1c) height (of stars) 1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) 1e) head, front, beginning 1f) chief, choicest, best 1g) head, division, company, band 1h) sum

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TBESH · H7218B

רֹאשׁ · rosh · prince

Rosh, a tite for a chief or prince

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TBESH · H7218H

רֹאשׁ · rosh · head: leader

: leader 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning 1a) head (of man, animals) 1b) top, tip (of mountain) 1c) height (of stars) 1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) 1e) head, front, beginning 1f) chief, choicest, best 1g) head, division, company, band 1h) sum

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TBESH · H7218I

רֹאשׁ · rosh · head: top

: top/best 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning 1a) head (of man, animals) 1b) top, tip (of mountain) 1c) height (of stars) 1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) 1e) head, front, beginning 1f) chief, choicest, best 1g) head, division, company, band 1h) sum

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TBESH · H7218J

רֹאשׁ · rosh · head: first

: first/start 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning 1a) head (of man, animals) 1b) top, tip (of mountain) 1c) height (of stars) 1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) 1e) head, front, beginning 1f) chief, choicest, best 1g) head, division, company, band 1h) sum

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TBESH · H7218K

רֹאשׁ · rosh · head: group

: group 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning 1a) head (of man, animals) 1b) top, tip (of mountain) 1c) height (of stars) 1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) 1e) head, front, beginning 1f) chief, choicest, best 1g) head, division, company, band 1h) sum

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TBESH · H7218L

רֹאשׁ · rosh · head: count

: count 1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning 1a) head (of man, animals) 1b) top, tip (of mountain) 1c) height (of stars) 1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest) 1e) head, front, beginning 1f) chief, choicest, best 1g) head, division, company, band 1h) sum

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

KJV glosses: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.

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How translators render H7218

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the head	37
his head	34
the heads	31
head	25
their heads	19
my head	18
heads	17
the chief	12
your head	11
atop	9
its head	9
top	9
the leaders	8
leaders	7
and the heads	6
her head	6
the top	6
to the top	6
chief	5
companies	5
from the beginning	5
the first	5
the summit	5
were the heads	5
leader	4
of his head	4
of my head	4
was the first	4
were heads	4
your heads	4
and heads	3
as chief	3
at the beginning	3
at the head	3
chiefs	3
of your head	3
on his head	3
on the head	3
the finest	3
the tops	3
was chief	3
a leader	2
a seat of honor	2
and the head	2
are the heads	2
as the chief	2
as the first	2
chief men	2
divisions	2
down on his own head	2
ends	2
from my head	2
his own head	2
in the tops	2
o leaders	2
on his own head	2
on the heads	2
on your head	2
sauls head	2
the chiefs	2
the mountaintops	2
the ridge	2
upon their own heads	2
upon your heads	2
upon your own head	2
was the chief	2
with his head	2
you	2
a census	1
a mountaintop	1
aarons head	1
absaloms head	1
according to the heads	1
allies	1
and	1
and chief	1
and chiefs	1
and cut off his head	1
and his head	1
and let his hair	1
and some of the heads	1
and the beginning	1
and the companies	1
and the leaders	1
and the summit	1
and the third	1
are on the head	1
around my head	1
around our heads	1
around their heads	1
as head	1
as leaders	1
as our head	1
as the head	1
as their leader	1
as your leaders	1
at its top	1
at the junction	1
at the top	1
at their head	1
atop the pillars	1
atop the tree	1
back upon their own heads	1
back upon your head	1
bands	1
become the head	1
beyond the summit	1
branches off	1
by the head	1
by the heads	1
commander	1
commanders	1
company	1
corner	1
cut off his head	1
cut off your head	1
down upon his own head	1
down upon their own heads	1
first	1
for each	1
for my head	1
for the foremost	1
for the head	1
for the tops	1
from atop	1
from beginning	1
from head	1
from its topmost	1
from our head	1
from the first	1
from the hilltop	1
from the mountains	1
from the mountaintops	1
from the peak	1
from the summits	1
hair	1
he must make	1
headwaters	1
her leaders	1
her masters	1
him	1
his consecrated head	1
his hair	1
his head again	1
his skull	1
in front	1
in his head	1
in the census	1
in the main	1
including the head	1
is the beginning	1
is their sum	1
it on the head	1
it will cost us our heads	1
its topmost	1
led by	1
let your hair	1
like heads	1
like the summit	1
may the heads	1
me	1
my greatest	1
my hair	1
of honor	1
of men	1
of the head	1
of the high	1
of the leaders	1
of their tops	1
of them were chiefs	1
on himself	1
on its head	1
on the corner	1
on the heights	1
on the mountaintop	1
on the top	1
on their heads	1
on top	1
on your own head	1
or any	1
or his head	1
our heads	1
over our heads	1
some of the heads	1
spots on their heads	1
that reaches	1
the cornerstone	1
the entirety	1
the high	1
the highest	1
the hilltop	1
the hilltops	1
the leader	1
the mountaintop	1
the tip	1
their chief	1
their hair	1
their own heads	1
their tops	1
there were directors	1
through their chief	1
to lead it	1
to the heads	1
to top	1
top of it	1
two leaders	1
upon her head	1
upon his head	1
upon the heads	1
upon your head	1
vvv	1
was head	1
was their chief	1
were leaders	1
were the leaders	1
when the leaders	1
where the top	1
who led	1
who were heads	1
who were the heads	1
will be on our heads	1
will crown	1
with its top	1
with the best	1
with the heads	1
with the leaders	1
you leaders	1
you the head	1
your own head	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the chief	42
upon the head	30
the head	22
upon his head	22
head	20
his head	19
chief	17
heads	14
my head	11
the heads	11
upon the top	11
on the top	10
upon their heads	10
in the top	8
their heads	8
to the top	8
and the chief	7
companies	7
from the top	7
of mine head	7
from the beginning	6
of his head	6
of the chief	6
the sum	6
upon his own head	6
on the head	5
and the head	4
at the head	4
company	4
her head	4
mine head	4
on his head	4
the first	4
the top	4
a captain	3
and his head	3
captains	3
chief men	3
in the beginning	3
over their heads	3
thine head	3
upon their head	3
upon thine head	3
all the heads	2
among the chief	2
and all the heads	2
and for their heads	2
and in the beginnings	2
and the heads	2
and the top	2
for the head	2
from off his head	2
from thy head	2
in his head	2
in the head	2
in the tops	2
into the top	2
of my head	2
of the head	2
of their chapiters	2
off his head	2
on her head	2
on high	2
that the ends	2
their chapiters	2
them heads	2
thy head	2
under my head	2
unto the heads	2
upon the heads	2
upon the tops	2
upon thine own head	2
upon your own head	2
with his head	2
with the heads	2
your heads	2
a chief	1
above my chief	1
above the head	1
all of them chief men	1
also the sum	1
also to me if the head	1
an excellent	1
an head	1
and be our head	1
and chief	1
and for the chief things	1
and had his head	1
and having his head	1
and heads	1
and in the top	1
and let thy head	1
and now shall mine head	1
and of the chief	1
and on the top	1
and the company	1
and the high	1
and the top of it	1
and to the chief	1
and unto his head	1
and unto the heads	1
and upon the head	1
and upon the top	1
and was chief	1
and your rulers	1
are the chief	1
as chief	1
as head	1
as the tops	1
at every head	1
at the top	1
bands	1
behold his head	1
behold the head	1
by the head	1
by the heads	1
captain	1
even the principal	1
even unto the head	1
every head	1
first	1
for every head	1
for from the top	1
for him in the top	1
for my head	1
from his head	1
having for their captains	1
he shall be head	1
he was chief	1
him head	1
him the chief	1
i pray you o heads	1
in all the tops	1
in the chief place	1
in the chiefest	1
in the forefront	1
is become the head	1
is the sum	1
it in the principal	1
me shall i be your head	1
me the head	1
nor the highest part	1
not your heads	1
now the chief	1
of the bands	1
of the heads	1
of the poor	1
of thine head	1
of your heads	1
on all their heads	1
on my head	1
on our head	1
on the heads	1
on the tops	1
on their heads	1
or his head	1
our head	1
our heads	1
over his head	1
over our heads	1
over thy head	1
shall be chief	1
shall be upon his own head	1
shall be upon thine own head	1
that was above the head	1
the beginning	1
the height	1
the principal	1
the whole head	1
thee the head	1
their head	1
them captains	1
them in the head	1
them rulers	1
them unto the top	1
them upon the head	1
themselves in the top	1
there in the top	1
thereof and the head	1
these are the heads	1
these chief	1
they shall be on the head	1
this i pray you ye heads	1
thou also unto thee principal	1
thyself there to me in the top	1
to every	1
to him he shall be the head	1
to lead	1
to thine head	1
top	1
under their heads	1
unto the top	1
unto thy head	1
unto you the beginning	1
upon all their heads	1
upon every head	1
upon her head	1
upon mine head	1
upon my head	1
upon our heads	1
upon the top of it	1
upon their own head	1
upon their own heads	1
upon thy head	1
upon whose head	1
upon your heads	1
was chief	1
was the chief	1
was the head	1
were the tops	1
when the heads	1
which the head	1
whither the head	1
whose top	1
with all the chief	1
with chief	1
with the first	1
with the head	1
with the principal	1
ye the heads	1
ye the sum	1
you from the beginning	1
your captains	1

Verses containing H7218

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Isaiah 35:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
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Isaiah 37:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
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Isaiah 40:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?
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Isaiah 41:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
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Isaiah 41:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.
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Isaiah 42:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.
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Isaiah 48:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
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Isaiah 51:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
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Isaiah 51:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
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Isaiah 58:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
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Isaiah 59:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
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Jeremiah 2:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
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Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
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Jeremiah 13:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?
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Jeremiah 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
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Jeremiah 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
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Jeremiah 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
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Jeremiah 22:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
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Jeremiah 23:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
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Jeremiah 30:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
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Jeremiah 31:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
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Jeremiah 48:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.
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Jeremiah 52:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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Jeremiah 52:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
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Lamentations 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
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Lamentations 2:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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Lamentations 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
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Lamentations 2:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
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Lamentations 3:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
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Lamentations 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
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Lamentations 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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Ezekiel 1:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
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Ezekiel 1:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood still with their wings lowered.
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Ezekiel 1:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.
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Ezekiel 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
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Ezekiel 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
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Ezekiel 7:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
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Ezekiel 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
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Ezekiel 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
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Ezekiel 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
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Ezekiel 10:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.
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Ezekiel 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
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Ezekiel 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?
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Ezekiel 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
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Ezekiel 16:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
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Ezekiel 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
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Ezekiel 16:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
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Ezekiel 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
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Ezekiel 17:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
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Ezekiel 17:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
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