Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh · roshe
65 times translated as this KJV form598 total Strong's occurrences
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 11:4Strong's last: Zechariah 4:2
Open full H7218 profile →גָּג
gâg · gawg
5 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
Strong's KJV usage: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:3Strong's last: Psalms 102:7
Open full H1406 profile →צְחִיחַ
tsᵉchîyach · tsekh-ee'-akh
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
glaring, i.e. exposed to the bright sun
Strong's KJV usage: higher place, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 24:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:14
Open full H6706 profile →ἄνωθεν
ánōthen · an'-o-then
3 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
from above; by analogy, from the first; by implication, anew
Strong's KJV usage: :--from above, again, from the beginning (very first), the top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 27:51Strong's last: John 19:23
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tsammereth · tsam-meh'-reth
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
fleeciness, i.e. foliage
Strong's KJV usage: highest branch, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 31:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 31:14
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çâʻîyph · saw-eef'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)
Strong's KJV usage: (outmost) branch, clift, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 15:8Strong's last: Judges 15:11
Open full H5585 profile →ἄκρον
ákron · ak'-ron
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
the extremity
Strong's KJV usage: :--one end… other, tip, top, uttermost part.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 11:21Strong's last: Hebrews 11:21
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gerem · gheh'-rem
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a bone (as the skeleton of the body); hence, self, i.e. (figuratively) very
Strong's KJV usage: bone, strong, top.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 9:13Strong's last: 2 Kings 9:13
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H7218
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
H7218
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
H6706
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
H6706
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
H6706
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
H6706
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
H6788
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
H6788
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
H6788
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
H7218
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
English meaning and historical usage.
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top
TOP, noun
1. 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.
2. Surface; upper side; as the top of the ground.
3. The highest place; as the top of preferment.
4. The highest person; the chief.
5. The utmost degree.
The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.
If you attain the top of your desires in fame--
6. The highest rank. Each boy strives to be at the top of his class, or at the top of the school.
7. The crown or upper surface of the head.
8. The hair on the crown of the head; the forelock.
9. The head of a plant.
10. An inverted conoid which children play with by whirling it on its point, continuing the motion with a whip.
11. In ship-building, a sort of platform, surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sides. It serves to extend the shrouds, by which means they more effectually support the mast; and in ships of war, the top furnishes a convenient stand for swivels and small arms to annoy the enemy.
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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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