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Lexicon :: Strong's H7223 - ri'šôn

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רִאשׁוֹן
Transliteration
ri'šôn
Pronunciation
ree-shone'
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Part of Speech
adjective, adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2097c

Strong’s Definitions

רִאשׁוֹן riʼshôwn, ree-shone'; or רִאשֹׁן riʼshôn; from H7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun):—ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 185x

The KJV translates Strong's H7223 in the following manner: first (129x), former (26x), former things (6x), beginning (4x), chief (3x), before (3x), old time (2x), foremost (3x), aforetime (1x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 185x
The KJV translates Strong's H7223 in the following manner: first (129x), former (26x), former things (6x), beginning (4x), chief (3x), before (3x), old time (2x), foremost (3x), aforetime (1x), miscellaneous (8x).
adjective
  1. first, primary, former

    1. former (of time)

      1. ancestors

      2. former things

    2. foremost (of location)

    3. first (in time)

    4. first, chief (in degree)

      adverb
  2. first, before, formerly, at first

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רִאשׁוֹן riʼshôwn, ree-shone'; or רִאשֹׁן riʼshôn; from H7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun):—ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
STRONGS H7223: Abbreviations
רִאשׁוֺן 182 adjective former, first, chief (i heightened from original a, see √); — absolute ר׳ Hosea 2:19 +, שֹׁן- Exodus 12:15 +, רִישׁוֺן Job 8:8, construct רִאשׁוֺן Job 15:7 Qr (Kt ראישון and so always Manuscript Sam. Pentateuch, see Köii. 1, 225 n); feminine רִאשֹׁנָה Judges 20:37 + (Joshua 21:10 Kt ראישנה see above); masculine plural רִאשֹׁנִים Exodus 34:1 +, feminine plural רִאשֹׁנוֺת Isaiah 41:22 +, etc.; —
1. former:
a. in time, former of two Genesis 25:25 (J), Genesis 41:20 (E), Deuteronomy 10:1, 2, 3, 4, 10; Deuteronomy 24:4, compare Hosea 2:9; Leviticus 4:21; Leviticus 9:15 (both P), Judges 20:39; 2 Kings 1:14; Haggai 2:3, 9; Ezra 3:12 +; more generally former, previous, Numbers 21:26 (JE), Micah 4:8; 2 Kings 17:34, 40; Zechariah 1:4; Zechariah 7:7, 12; Zechariah 8:11; Nehemiah 5:15; Eccl 17:10; Psalm 79:8 +; כָּעֵת הָ ר׳ Isaiah 8:23; דִּבְרֵי דויד הָ ר׳ 1 Chronicles 29:29 the doings of David, the former and the latter (הָאַחֲדֹנִים), compare 2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 16:11; 20:34; 25:26; 26:22; 28:26; 35:27; early days of harvest 2 Samuel 21:9; רִאשֹׁנִים as substantive, former persons, ancestors, men of old, Deuteronomy 19:14; Leviticus 26:45 (H), Ecclesiastes 1:11 (opposed to אַחֲרֹנִים); (תָ)רִאשֹׁנוֺת as substantive the former things, i.e. past events Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 43:9, 18; Isaiah 46:9; Isaiah 48:3, earlier predictions Isaiah 42:9.
b. location, foremost, of two 2 Samuel 18:27.
2. first:
a. in time, הַמַּכָּה הָ ר׳ 1 Samuel 14:14 the first slaughter (preliminary to general carnage); וְלֹאהָֿיָה דְּבָרִי ר׳ 2 Samuel 19:44 was not my word first? ר׳ in apposition with person subject 2 Samuel 19:21 I am come as first, compare perhaps Isaiah 41:27 (insert אָמַרְתִּי Ges De < read הִגַּדְתִּים for הִנֵּה הִנָּם CheHpt Kit Di), and הָ ר׳ Jeremiah 50:17 (opposed to הָאַחֲרוֺן), Isaiah 43:27; ר׳ absolute, first of mankind Job 15:17; absolute of י׳, I (an the) first Isaiah 41:4 (+אֶתֿ אַחֲדֹנִים), + אַחְרוֺן Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12; absolute of time, מֵרִאשׁוֺן Jeremiah 17:12 from the beginning; especially first of a def. series (sometimes opposed to אַחֲרוֺן). first day of feast Deuteronomy 16:4; Exodus 12:15 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:16 + 5 times P (H), Nehemiah 8:18, usually first month (חֹרֶשׁ) Exodus 40:2, 17; Leviticus 23:5 + 6 times P, 1 Chronicles 12:16 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:15) + 10 times Chronicles, Ezra, Esther 3:7; Daniel 10:4, חֹדֶשׁ omitted Genesis 8:13; Exodus 12:2, 18; Numbers 9:5 (all P) Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 45:18, 21, so Joel 2:23, but read כָּרִאשׁוֺנָה (3a) Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version We Now and Dr.
b. first in degree, chief: יַד רִאשׁוֹנָה ֗֗֗ הַשָּׂרִים Ezra 9:2 the hand of the princes... has been first in this trespass; 1 Chronicles 18:17; Daniel 10:13 (Chronicles, Esther 1:14 below).
3.
a. feminine with preposition as adverb phrase:
(1) of time, בָּרִאשֹׁנָה Genesis 13:4 (J), = before, formerly, so Joshua 8:5, 6 (JE), 2 Samuel 7:10; 2 Samuel 20:18; Jeremiah 7:12; Isaiah 52:4, לָר׳ = before, formerly, Genesis 28:19 (J), Judges 18:29; so כְּבָר׳ as formerly Judges 20:32; 1 Kings 13:6; Isaiah 1:26; Jeremiah 33:7, 11, = כָּ ר׳ Deuteronomy 9:15; Daniel 11:29 (opposed to כָּאַחֲרוֺנָה); בָּר = at first, first of all, Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 17:7; Numbers 10:13 (P) Joshua 8:33 (D), 1 Kings 17:13; 1 Kings 20:9; Zechariah 12:7; Proverbs 20:21 (opposed to אַחֲרִיתָהּ), 1 Chronicles 11:6 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 17:9; Nehemiah 7:5; לְמַבָּרִאשׁוֺנָה 1 Chronicles 15:13 (= לְמַהבָּֿר׳) for what was at first, etc. (מָךְ 1e);
(2) location, בָּר׳ i.e. at the head of an army 1 Kings 20:17, a procession Numbers 10:14 (P), compare Isaiah 60:9.
b. רִאשֹׁנָה alone as adverb:
(1) of time first Genesis 38:28 (J), 1 Kings 18:25; Jeremiah 16:18; Leviticus 5:8; Numbers 2:9; Joshua 21:10 (all P), Isaiah 65:7 (Ew De Che Di Du Skinner, >adjective Ges Hi Kn);
(2) of place Genesis 33:2 (J);
(3) of degree, rank, Esther 1:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:13; 13:4; 25:25; 28:19; 33:2; 38:28; 41:20

Exodus

12:2; 12:15; 12:15; 12:16; 12:18; 34:1; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:21; 5:8; 9:15; 23:5; 26:45

Numbers

2:9; 9:5; 10:13; 10:14; 21:26

Deuteronomy

9:15; 10:1; 10:2; 10:3; 10:4; 10:10; 13:10; 16:4; 17:7; 19:14; 24:4

Joshua

8:5; 8:6; 8:33; 21:10; 21:10

Judges

18:29; 20:32; 20:37; 20:39

1 Samuel

14:14

2 Samuel

7:10; 18:27; 19:21; 20:18; 21:9

1 Kings

13:6; 17:13; 18:25; 20:9; 20:17

2 Kings

1:14; 17:34; 17:40

1 Chronicles

11:6; 12:15; 12:16; 15:13; 17:9; 18:17; 29:29

2 Chronicles

9:29; 12:15; 16:11; 20:34; 25:26; 26:22; 28:26; 35:27

Ezra

3:12; 9:2

Nehemiah

5:15; 7:5; 8:18

Esther

1:14; 1:14; 3:7

Job

8:8; 15:7; 15:17

Psalms

79:8

Proverbs

20:21

Ecclesiastes

1:11

Isaiah

1:26; 41:4; 41:22; 41:22; 41:27; 42:9; 43:9; 43:18; 43:27; 44:6; 46:9; 48:3; 48:12; 52:4; 60:9; 65:7

Jeremiah

7:12; 16:18; 17:12; 33:7; 33:11; 50:17

Ezekiel

29:17; 30:20; 45:18; 45:21

Daniel

10:4; 10:13; 11:29

Hosea

2:9; 2:19

Joel

2:23

Micah

4:8

Haggai

2:3; 2:9

Zechariah

1:4; 7:7; 7:12; 8:11; 12:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7223 matches the Hebrew רִאשׁוֹן (ri'šôn),
which occurs 182 times in 174 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Deu 19:14–2Ch 29:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 -

“You shall not displace your neighbor’s boundary marker, which the ancestors H7223 have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to [fn]possess.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former H7223 husband who [fn]sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, after [fn]she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 -

Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first H7223 month and camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - “Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as they did the first H7223 time, we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - “They will come out after us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us just as they did the first H7223 time H7223.’ So we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - And all Israel with their elders, officers, and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at first H7223 to bless the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:10 - and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, because the lot was theirs first H7223.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:29 - And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born to Israel; however, the name of the city was previously H7223 Laish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:22 - But the people, the men of Israel, showed themselves courageous and lined up for battle again in the place where they had lined themselves up on the first H7223 day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32 - And the sons of Benjamin said, “They are defeated before us, like the first H7223 time H7223.” But the sons of Israel said, “Let’s flee, so that we may draw them away from the city to the roads.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel, for they said, “Undoubtedly they are [fn]defeated before us, as in the first H7223 battle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - Then he said, “May you be blessed of the LORD, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than the first H7223, by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - Now that first H7223 slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer inflicted was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:30 - Then he turned [fn]away from him to another and said the same thing; and the people replied with the same words as [fn]before H7223.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - “And I will establish a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will [fn]malicious people oppress them anymore as previously H7223,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, “I [fn]think the running form of the first H7223 one H7223 is like the running form of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “This is a good man, and he is coming with good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - “For your servant knows that I have sinned; so behold, I have come today, the first H7223 of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, “[fn]We have ten parts in the king, therefore [fn]we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat [fn]us with contempt? Was it not [fn]our [fn]advice first H7223 to bring back [fn]our king?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - Then she spoke, saying, “In the past H7223 they used to say, ‘They will undoubtedly ask advice at Abel,’ and that is how they ended a dispute.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:9 - Then he handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they [fn]hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first H7223 days of harvest at the beginning of barley harvest.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - And the king responded and said to the man of God, “Please [fn]appease the LORD your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God [fn]appeased the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before H7223.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - However, Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said. Just make me a little bread loaf from [fn]it first H7223 and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 -

So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose the one ox for yourselves and prepare it first H7223, since there are many of you, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under the ox.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘Everything that you sent as a demand to your servant at the first H7223, I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’” Then the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - The young men of the leaders of the provinces went out first H7223; and Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - “Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the first H7223 two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my [fn]life be precious in your sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:34 -

To this day they act in accordance with the earlier H7223 customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they [fn]follow their statutes, their ordinances, the Law, or the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:40 - However, they did not listen, but they kept acting in accordance with their earlier H7223 custom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 -

Now the first H7223 inhabitants who lived on their own property in their cities were people of Israel, including the priests, the Levites, and the [fn]temple servants.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6 - Now David had said, “Whoever is first H7223 to [fn]kill a Jebusite shall be chief and commander.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first H7223, so he became chief.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first H7223 month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:13 - “Because you did not carry it at the first H7223, the LORD our God made an outburst against us, since we did not seek Him according to the ordinance.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - “And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them there, so that they may live in their own place and not tremble with anxiety again; and the [fn]wicked will not make them waste away anymore as they did previously H7223,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:17 - and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David were chiefs H7223 at the king’s side.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:7 -

Now the first H7223 lot came out for Jehoiarib, the second for Jedaiah,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:9 -

Now the first H7223 lot came out for Asaph to Joseph, the second for Gedaliah, he with his relatives and sons were twelve;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:2 -

Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel [fn]was in charge of the first H7223 division for the first H7223 month; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:3 - He was from the sons of Perez, and was chief of all the commanders of the army for the first H7223 month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - Now the acts of King David, from the first H7223 to the last, are written in the chronicles of Samuel the seer, in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the chronicles of Gad the seer,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:3 - Now these are the [fn]foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old H7223 standard, was [fn]sixty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:29 -

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from the first H7223 to the last, are they not written in the [fn]records of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of [fn]Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:15 -

Now the acts of Rehoboam, from the first H7223 to the last, are they not written in the [fn]records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11 -

Now, the acts of Asa from the first H7223 to the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he [fn]followed the example of his father David’s earlier H7223 days and did not seek the Baals,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34 -

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first H7223 [fn]to last, behold, they are written in the annals of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is [fn]recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:1 -

Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made [fn]Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older H7223 sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from the first H7223 to the last, behold, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:22 -

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first H7223 to the last, the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, has written.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:26 - Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from the first H7223 to the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:3 -

In the first H7223 year of his reign, in the first H7223 month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.


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