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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

H7223

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

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 8:13–Deu 17:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - And the first came out red -- all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which had been in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but the name of that city was Luz at the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou, and where goest thou, and whose are these before thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:28 - And it came to pass when she brought forth, that one stretched out his hand, and the midwife took it and bound round his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the other sign.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:2 - This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread: on the very first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day -- that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - And on the first day ye shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation: no manner of work shall be done on them, save what is eaten by every person -- that only shall be done by you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - And he hewed two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 - And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, that the tabernacle was set up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:21 - And he shall carry forth the bullock outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin-offering of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall present that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off his head at the neck, but shall not divide it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:15 - And he presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin-offering which was for the people and slaughtered it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - On the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the produce of the land, ye shall celebrate the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day there shall be rest, and on the eighth day there shall be rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - And ye shall take on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, palm branches and the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - And he shall again consecrate to Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a yearling lamb for a trespass-offering. But the first days are forfeited, for his consecration hath been defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:12 - And he that presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they held the passover in the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:13 - And they first took their journey, according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 - The standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward first according to their hosts, and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the passover to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18 - On the first day shall be a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been anything as this great thing is, or if anything hath been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, -- I ate no bread and drank no water, -- because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first, and come up unto me into the mountain, and make thee an ark of wood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt lay them in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - And I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - And he wrote on the tables, as the first writing, the ten words which Jehovah spoke unto you on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly, and Jehovah gave them unto me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - But I stood upon the mountain according to the former days, forty days and forty nights; and Jehovah listened unto me also at that time: Jehovah would not destroy thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:9 - but thou shalt in any case kill him: thy hand shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst at even on the first day, be left over night until the morning. --

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:7 - The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

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