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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

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 3 / 4 (2Ch 29:17–Jer 36:28)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:17 - Then they began [fn]to set it apart as holy on the first day of the first H7223 month, and on the eighth day of the month they entered the porch of Yahweh. Then they set apart the house of Yahweh as holy in eight days, and completed it on the sixteenth day of the first H7223 month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 -

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first H7223 month.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:27 - and his acts, first H7223 to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:12 - Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first H7223 house of Yahweh, were weeping with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many in loud shouts with gladness were raising their voice,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 -

And the exiles celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth of the first H7223 month.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For on the first of the first H7223 month [fn]he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 -

Then we set out from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first H7223 month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the way.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:2 - “For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the officials have been foremost H7223 in this unfaithfulness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - And they completed investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first H7223 month.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former H7223 governors who were before me [fn]laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty [fn]shekels of silver; even their young men exerted their power over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5 -

Then my God put it into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, the officials, and the people to be recorded by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first H7223, and in it I found written:

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:18 - And he read from the book of the law of God daily, from the first H7223 day to the last day. And they celebrated the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly according to the legal judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - and were close to him: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who [fn]had access to the king’s presence and sat in the first H7223 place in the kingdom
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 -

In the first H7223 month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, [fn]Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, [fn]until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 -

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first H7223 month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its tongue, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 -

“Please ask of past H7223 generations,

And establish the things searched out by their fathers.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:7 -

“Were you the first H7223 man to be born,

Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 -

Do not remember our former H7223 iniquities against us;

Let Your compassion quickly approach us,

For we are brought very low.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:49 -

Where are Your former H7223 lovingkindnesses, O Lord,

Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:17 -

The first H7223 [fn]to plead his case seems right,

Until [fn]another comes and examines him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:21 -

An inheritance gained hurriedly at the beginning H7223

In the end will not be blessed.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:11 -

There is no remembrance of [fn]earlier H7223 things H7223;

And also of the [fn]later things which will be,

There will be for them no remembrance

Among those who will come [fn]later still.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 -

Do not say, “Why is it that the former H7223 days were better than these?”

For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 -

“Then I will have your judges return as at the first H7223,

And your counselors as at the beginning;

Afterwards you will be called the city of righteousness,

A faithful town.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 -

[fn]But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier H7223 times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the [fn]Gentiles.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:4 -

“Who has worked and done it,

Calling forth the generations from the beginning?

‘I, Yahweh, am the first H7223; and with the last, I am He.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 -

Let them bring it forth and declare to us what is going to take place;

As for the former H7223 events, declare what they were,

That we may establish our heart on them and know their outcome.

Or cause us to hear of what is coming;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:27 -

“Formerly H7223 I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’

And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a messenger of good news.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:9 -

“Behold, the former H7223 things H7223 have come to pass;

Now I declare new things;

Before they spring forth I cause you to hear them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 -

All the nations have gathered together

So that the peoples may be assembled.

Who among them can declare this

And make us hear the former H7223 things H7223?

Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified,

Or let them hear and say, “It is true.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:18 -

“Do not remember the former H7223 things H7223,

Nor carefully consider things of the past.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:27 -

“Your first H7223 father sinned,

And your [fn]spokesmen have [fn]transgressed against Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:6 -

“Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts:

‘I am the first H7223, and I am the last,

And there is no God besides Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 -

“Remember the former H7223 things H7223 long past,

For I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and there is no one like Me,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 -

“I declared the former H7223 things H7223 long ago,

And they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to be heard.

Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:12 -

“Hear Me, O Jacob, even Israel [fn]whom I called;

I am He, I am the first H7223, I am also the last.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says Lord Yahweh, “My people went down at the first H7223 into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:9 -

“Surely the coastlands will hope in Me;

And the ships of Tarshish will come first H7223,

To bring your sons from afar,

Their silver and their gold with them,

For the name of Yahweh your God,

And for the Holy One of Israel because He has [fn]adorned you with beautiful glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient waste places;

They will raise up the former H7223 desolations;

And they will make new the ruined cities,

The desolations from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 -

Both [fn]their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says Yahweh.

“Because they have burned incense on the mountains

And reproached Me on the hills,

Therefore I will measure their former H7223 work into their bosom.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:16 -

Because he who [fn]is blessed in the earth

Will [fn]be blessed by the God of truth,

And he who swears in the earth

Will swear by the God of truth;

Because the former H7223 distresses are forgotten,

And because they are hidden from My sight!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 -

“For behold, I am creating a new heavens and a new earth;

And the former H7223 things H7223 will not be remembered or come upon the heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:12 -

“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first H7223, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - “They have turned back to the iniquities of their [fn]ancestors H7223 who refused to hear My words, and they have walked after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - “I will first H7223 doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have profaned My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:12 -

A glorious throne on high from the beginning H7223

Is the place of our sanctuary.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:7 - ‘I will [fn]return the [fn]fortunes of Judah and the [fn]fortunes of Israel and will rebuild them as they were at first H7223.
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 those who say,

“Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts,

For Yahweh is good,

For His lovingkindness endures forever”;

and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of Yahweh. For I will [fn]return the [fn]fortunes of the land as they were at first H7223,’ says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - ‘You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former H7223 kings who were before you, so they will burn spices for you; and they will lament for you, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28 - “Take again another scroll and write on it all the former H7223 words that were on the first H7223 scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

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