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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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
Open full H6788 profile →סָעִיף
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
Open full G206 profile →גֶּרֶם
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
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
H1634
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
H1406
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
H7218
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
H7218
To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
H7218
To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
H7218
And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
H7218
And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
H7218
And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
H7218
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
H1406
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
H7218
She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
H7218
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
H7218
Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
H7218
Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
H7218
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
H7218
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
H7218
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
H7218
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
H7218
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
H7218
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
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.
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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