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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.
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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 3 / 4 (2Ch 29:17–Jer 36:28)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:17 - Now they began on the first day of the first H7223 month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first H7223 month they made an end.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first H7223 month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:27 - And his deeds, first H7223 and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:12 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first H7223 house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first H7223 month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For upon the first day of the first H7223 month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first H7223 month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:2 - For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief H7223 in this trespass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first H7223 month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former H7223 governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5 - And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, H7223 and found written therein,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:18 - Also day by day, from the first H7223 day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first H7223 in the kingdom;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - In the first H7223 month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first H7223 month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 - For enquire, I pray thee, of the former H7223 H7223 age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:7 - Art thou the first H7223 H7223 man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - O remember not against us former H7223 iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:49

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:49 - Lord, where are thy former H7223 lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:17 - He that is first H7223 in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:21 - An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; H7223 but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:11 - There is no remembrance of former H7223 things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former H7223 days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will restore thy judges as at the first, H7223 and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 - Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first H7223 he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:4 - Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, H7223 and with the last; I am he.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, H7223 what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:27 - The first H7223 shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:9 - Behold, the former things H7223 are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 - Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? H7223 let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:18 - Remember ye not the former things, H7223 neither consider the things of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:27 - Thy first H7223 father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:6 - Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, H7223 and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 - Remember the former things H7223 of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 - I have declared the former things H7223 from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:12 - Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, H7223 I also am the last.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime H7223 into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:9 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, H7223 to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former H7223 desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former H7223 work into their bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:16 - That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former H7223 troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former H7223 shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:12 - But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, H7223 and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, H7223 which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - And first H7223 I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:12 - A glorious high throne from the beginning H7223 is the place of our sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:7 - And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. H7223

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:11 - The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, H7223 saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former H7223 kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28 - Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former H7223 words that were in the first H7223 roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

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