Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H7223

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Original: ראשׁן ראשׁון

Transliteration: rishon rishon (ri'shôn ri'shôn)

Phonetic: ree-shone'

BDB Definition:

first, primary, former (adjective)
1. former (of time)
  1. ancestors
  2. former things
2. foremost (of location)
3. first (in time)
4. first, chief (in degree)
first, before, formerly, at first (adverb)

Origin: from H7221

TWOT entry: 2097c

Strong's Definition: 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.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (181x)

According To The First (2x)

Aforetime (1x)

After The First (1x)

After The Former (3x)

After Their Former (1x)

Against The Former (1x)

All The Eldest (1x)

And First (1x)

And In The First (1x)

And It Came To Pass In The First (1x)

And That First (1x)

And The First (1x)

And The Former (1x)

And They First (1x)

As At The Beginning (1x)

As At The First (3x)

As Beforetime (1x)

As In The Former (1x)

As The First (1x)

At The Beginning (1x)

At The First (6x)

Because The Former (1x)

Before (2x)

Behold, The Former Things (1x)

But It Shall Not Be As The Former (1x)

But The Former (1x)

Chief (1x)

Day Of The First (1x)

Even The First (1x)

First (20x)

For From The First (1x)

For The First (2x)

Foremost (1x)

From The Beginning (1x)

From The First (2x)

Had: For Theirs Was The First (1x)

Hath Been Chief (1x)

He In The First (1x)

Her Former (1x)

I Pray Thee, Of The Former (1x)

In Her First (1x)

In It All The Former (1x)

In Old Time (1x)

In The First (19x)

Like Unto The First (4x)

Not Against Us Former (1x)

Not At The First (1x)

Now The First (3x)

Of Former (1x)

Of The Chief (1x)

Of The First (16x)

Of The Foremost (1x)

Of The Former (2x)

Of Their Ancestors (1x)

On The First (3x)

Over The First (1x)

Shall Be First (2x)

Should Not Be First (1x)

Than At The Beginning (1x)

Than The Former (1x)

That Are Past (1x)

That The Former (1x)

That Were Before (1x)

That Were In The First (3x)

The First (17x)

The Foremost (1x)

The Former (4x)

The Former Things (3x)

Their Former (1x)

Them, As At The First (1x)

There At The First (1x)

These Shall First (1x)

Thou The First (1x)

Thy First (1x)

Thy Former (1x)

To My First (1x)

Unto Whom The Former (1x)

Us Former Things (1x)

Us, As At The First (3x)

Which They Of Old Time (1x)

Ye Not The Former Things (1x)

You On The First (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 8:13

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Genesis 13:4

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord .

Genesis 25:25

And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Genesis 26:1

And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

Genesis 28:19

And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.(g)

Genesis 32:17

And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

Genesis 33:2

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

Genesis 38:28

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

Genesis 40:13

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.(b)

Genesis 41:20

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Exodus 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 latter sign.

Exodus 12:2

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12:15

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16

And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.(f)

Exodus 12:18

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

Exodus 34:1

And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

Exodus 34:4

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

Exodus 40:2

On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

Exodus 40:17

And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

Leviticus 4:21

And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.

Leviticus 5:8

And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:

Leviticus 9:15

And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

Leviticus 23:5

In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.

Leviticus 23:7

In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:35

On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:39

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

Leviticus 23:40

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.(d)

Leviticus 26:45

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord .

Numbers 2:9

All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.

Numbers 6:12

And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.(e)

Numbers 7:12

And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

Numbers 9:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 9:5

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H7223

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H7223