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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 - It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the eretz. Noach removed the covering of the teivah, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esav.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. Yitzchak went to Avimelekh king of the Pelishtim, to Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - He called the name of that place Beit-El, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esav, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the handmaids and their children in front, Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef at the rear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:28 - It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - Within three more days, Par`oh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Par`oh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:2 - "This month shall be to 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 you eat matzah; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat matzah, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moshe rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 - It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:21 - He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - He shall bring them to the Kohen, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:15 - He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD's Pesach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Mitzrayim in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All who were numbered of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:12 - He who offered his offering the first day was Nachshon the son of `Amminadav, of the tribe of Yehudah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - The LORD spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - They kept the Pesach in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:13 - They first took their journey according to the mitzvah of the LORD by Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 - In the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Yehudah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nachshon the son of `Amminadav.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - The children of Yisra'el, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Tzin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miryam died there, and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Amori, who had fought against the former king of Mo'av, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD's Pesach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18 - In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - They traveled from Ra`meses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Pesach the children of Yisra'el went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Mitzrim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the eretz, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time the LORD said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make a teivah of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the teivah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - So I made a teivah of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten mitzvot, which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD would not destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:9 - but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:7 - The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

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