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Lexicon :: Strong's H7225 - rē'šîṯ

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רֵאשִׁית
Transliteration
rē'šîṯ
Pronunciation
ray-sheeth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as רֹאשׁ (H7218)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2097e

Strong’s Definitions

רֵאשִׁית rêʼshîyth, ray-sheeth'; from the same as H7218; the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit):—beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x

The KJV translates Strong's H7225 in the following manner: beginning (18x), firstfruits (11x), first (9x), chief (8x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x
The KJV translates Strong's H7225 in the following manner: beginning (18x), firstfruits (11x), first (9x), chief (8x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. first, beginning, best, chief

    1. beginning

    2. first

    3. chief

    4. choice part

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רֵאשִׁית rêʼshîyth, ray-sheeth'; from the same as H7218; the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit):—beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
STRONGS H7225: Abbreviations
† [רֵאשִׁית] noun feminine beginning, chief (for *רְאֵשִׁית NöGGA 1884, 1019, compare HolzHexateuch 465; Syriac bdb091201); — absolute ר׳ Deuteronomy 33:21+, construct ר׳ Genesis 10:10+, רֵשִׁית Deuteronomy 11:12; suffix רֵאשִׁיתוֺ Ecclesiastes 7:8, רֵאשִׁתוֺ Job 42:12, etc.; —
1.
a. beginning of kingdom Genesis 10:10 (J), year Deuteronomy 11:12, reign Jeremiah 26:1; Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 49:34;= first phase, step, or element in course of events Isaiah 46:10 (opposed to אַחֲרִית); of a thing (דָּבָר) Ecclesiastes 7:8 (opposed to id.); of sin Micah 1:13, strife Proverbs 17:14, wisdom Psalm 111:10, knowledge Proverbs 1:7 thy beginning Job 8:7 —his beginning Job 42:12 (both opposed to אַחֲרִית), ר׳ before clause, בָּרָא א׳ בְּר׳ Genesis 1:1 in the beginning when god created (> absolute in the beginning God created); אֹנִי ר׳ Genesis 49:3 (poem) beginning (first product) of my manly vigour (|| בְּכֹרִי כֹּחִי so Deuteronomy 21:17; Psalm 78:51 (both || בְּכוֺת Psalm 105:36; compare דֵּרְכֵי אֵל ר׳ Job 40:19 (of hippopotamus), דַּרְכּוֺ ר׳ Proverbs 8:22 (of wisdom);=first season (of a tree) Hosea 9:10; גּוֺיִם ר׳ Numbers 24:20 (JE), first, earliest, of nations.
b. first of fruits Exodus 23:19 (E), Exodus 34:26 (JE), Deuteronomy 26:2, 10; Ezekiel 44:30.a, of harvest Leviticus 23:10 (H), grain Deuteronomy 18:4; 2 Chronicles 31:5 dough Numbers 15:20, 21 (P), Ezekiel 44:30b Nehemiah 10:38, wool Deuteronomy 18:4; of כָּלתְּֿבוּאָתֶ֑ךָ Proverbs 3:9; Israel is תְּבוּאָתֹה ר׳ Jeremiah 2:3 (i.e. of י׳'s increase); ר׳ =first-fruits Leviticus 2:12 (P), Numbers 18:12 (P), Nehemiah 12:44; הָאָרֶץ ר׳ Ezekiel 48:14
2. first chief, Amos 6:1; גְּבוּרָתָם ר׳ Jeremiah 49:35 (of bows); so apparently בְּנֵי עַמּוֺן ר׳ Daniel 11:41, i.e. the principal part of them (Buhl Marti conjecture שְׁאֵרִית after Syriac Version); מַשְׁאוֺתֵיכֶם ר׳ Ezekiel 20:40, i.e. your chief oblations; שְׁמָנִים ר׳ Amos 6:6, i.e. choice oils; = choice part, of land Deuteronomy 33:21, offering 1 Samuel 2:29, הַחֵרֶם 1 Samuel 15:21; absolute chief thing Proverbs 4:7 (of wisdom).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 10:10; 10:10; 49:3

Exodus

23:19; 34:26

Leviticus

2:12; 23:10

Numbers

15:20; 15:21; 18:12; 24:20

Deuteronomy

11:12; 11:12; 18:4; 18:4; 21:17; 26:2; 26:10; 33:21; 33:21

1 Samuel

2:29; 15:21

2 Chronicles

31:5

Nehemiah

10:38; 12:44

Job

8:7; 40:19; 42:12; 42:12

Psalms

78:51; 105:36; 111:10

Proverbs

1:7; 3:9; 4:7; 8:22; 17:14

Ecclesiastes

7:8; 7:8

Isaiah

46:10

Jeremiah

2:3; 26:1; 27:1; 28:1; 49:34; 49:35

Ezekiel

20:40; 44:30; 44:30; 48:14

Daniel

11:41

Hosea

9:10

Amos

6:1; 6:6

Micah

1:13

H7225

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7225 matches the Hebrew רֵאשִׁית (rē'šîṯ),
which occurs 51 times in 49 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 -
Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength;
The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - As an oblation of first-fruits ye shall offer them unto Jehovah: but they shall not come up for a sweet savor on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12 - All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to thee have I given them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
Amalek was the first of the nations;
But his latter end shall come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12 - a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before Jehovah thy God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21 -
And he provided the first part for himself,
For there was the lawgiver’s portion reserved;
And he came with the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of Jehovah,
And his ordinances with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7 -
And though thy beginning was small,
Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:19 -
He is the chief of the ways of God:
He only that made him giveth him his sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:51

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 -
And smote all the first-born in Egypt,
The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36 -
He smote also all the first-born in their land,
The chief of all their strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 111:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:10 -
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all they that do his commandments:
His praise endureth for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 -
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge;
But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:9 -
Honor Jehovah with thy substance,
And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:7 -
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom;
Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 -
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,
Before his works of old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:14 -
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water:
Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 - declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 - And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:34 - The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:35 - Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:14 - And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy unto Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:6 - that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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