Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7223
רִאשׁוֹן
ri.shon · “first”
Used 182 times across 30 books
Definition
: first
adj
1) first, primary, former
1a) former (of time)
1a1) ancestors
1a2) former things
1b) foremost (of location)
1c) first (in time)
1d) first, chief (in degree)
adv
2) first, before, formerly, at first
adj
1) first, primary, former
1a) former (of time)
1a1) ancestors
1a2) former things
1b) foremost (of location)
1c) first (in time)
1d) first, chief (in degree)
adv
2) first, before, formerly, at first
Where it appears
Genesis10
Exodus11
Leviticus9
Numbers13
Deuteronomy12
Joshua5
Judges4
Ruth1
1 Samuel2
2 Samuel6
1 Kings5
2 Kings3
1 Chronicles13
2 Chronicles16
Ezra6
Nehemiah3
Esther3
Job2
Psalms2
Proverbs2
Ecclesiastes2
Isaiah19
Jeremiah10
Ezekiel5
Daniel6
Hosea1
Joel1
Micah1
Haggai2
Zechariah7
In the text
Genesis 8:13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.Genesis 13:4Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.Genesis 25:25And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.Genesis 26:1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.Genesis 28:19And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.Genesis 32:18Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.Genesis 33:2And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.Genesis 38:28And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.Genesis 40:13Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.Genesis 41:20And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
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