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
And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
H7218
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
H7218
And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
H7218
And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
H1406
But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
H5585
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
H5585
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
H7218
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
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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