H7223: רִאשׁוֹן
riʼshôwn · pronounced ree-shone' · “first”
Definition
first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV translates it as: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Word origin: or רִאשֹׁן; from H7221 (רִאשָׁה);
Extended definition
adj
1) first, primary, former
1a) former (of time)
1a1) ancestors
1a2) former things
1b) foremost (of location)
1c) first (in time)
1d) first, chief (in degree)
adv
2) first, before, formerly, at first
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7223 is translated
- first ×79
- former ×48
- former time ×16
- first month ×8
- former things ×8
- former tablets ×4
- first time ×4
- am first ×3
- will be first ×1
- first offering ×1
- the forefathers ×1
- ancestors ×1
Bible verses with H7223 (riʼshôwn)
Riʼshôwn appears in 173 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
All 173 references
- Leviticus 23:39
- Leviticus 23:40
- Leviticus 26:45
- Numbers 2:9
- Numbers 6:12
- Numbers 7:12
- Numbers 9:1
- Numbers 9:5
- Numbers 10:13
- Numbers 10:14
- Numbers 20:1
- Numbers 21:26
- Numbers 28:16
- Numbers 28:18
- Numbers 33:3
- Deuteronomy 4:32
- Deuteronomy 9:18
- Deuteronomy 10:1
- Deuteronomy 10:2
- Deuteronomy 10:3
- Deuteronomy 10:4
- Deuteronomy 10:10
- Deuteronomy 13:9
- Deuteronomy 16:4
- Deuteronomy 17:7
- Deuteronomy 19:14
- Deuteronomy 24:4
- Joshua 4:19
- Joshua 8:5
- Joshua 8:6
- Joshua 8:33
- Joshua 21:10
- Judges 18:29
- Judges 20:22
- Judges 20:32
- Judges 20:39
- Ruth 3:10
- 1 Samuel 14:14
- 1 Samuel 17:30
- 2 Samuel 7:10
- 2 Samuel 18:27
- 2 Samuel 19:20
- 2 Samuel 19:43
- 2 Samuel 20:18
- 2 Samuel 21:9
- 1 Kings 13:6
- 1 Kings 17:13
- 1 Kings 18:25
- 1 Kings 20:9
- 1 Kings 20:17
- 2 Kings 1:14
- 2 Kings 17:34
- 2 Kings 17:40
- 1 Chronicles 9:2
- 1 Chronicles 11:6
- 1 Chronicles 12:15
- 1 Chronicles 17:9
- 1 Chronicles 18:17
- 1 Chronicles 24:7
- 1 Chronicles 25:9
- 1 Chronicles 27:2
- 1 Chronicles 27:3
- 1 Chronicles 29:29
- 2 Chronicles 3:3
- 2 Chronicles 9:29
- 2 Chronicles 12:15
- 2 Chronicles 16:11
- 2 Chronicles 17:3
- 2 Chronicles 20:34
- 2 Chronicles 22:1
- 2 Chronicles 25:26
- 2 Chronicles 26:22
- 2 Chronicles 28:26
- 2 Chronicles 29:3
- 2 Chronicles 29:17
- 2 Chronicles 35:1
- 2 Chronicles 35:27
- Ezra 3:12
- Ezra 6:19
- Ezra 7:9
- Ezra 8:31
- Ezra 9:2
- Ezra 10:17
- Nehemiah 5:15
- Nehemiah 7:5
- Nehemiah 8:18
- Esther 1:14
- Esther 3:7
- Esther 3:12
- Job 8:8
- Job 15:7
- Psalms 79:8
- Psalms 89:49
- Proverbs 18:17
- Proverbs 20:21
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
- Ecclesiastes 7:10
- Isaiah 1:26
- Isaiah 9:1
- Isaiah 41:4
- Isaiah 41:22
- Isaiah 41:27
- Isaiah 42:9
- Isaiah 43:9
- Isaiah 43:18
- Isaiah 43:27
- Isaiah 44:6
- Isaiah 46:9
- Isaiah 48:3
- Isaiah 48:12
- Isaiah 52:4
- Isaiah 60:9
- Isaiah 61:4
- Isaiah 65:7
- Isaiah 65:16
- Isaiah 65:17
- Jeremiah 7:12
- Jeremiah 11:10
- Jeremiah 16:18
- Jeremiah 17:12
- Jeremiah 33:7
- Jeremiah 33:11
- Jeremiah 34:5
- Jeremiah 36:28
- Jeremiah 50:17
- Ezekiel 29:17
- Ezekiel 30:20
- Ezekiel 40:21
- Ezekiel 45:18
- Ezekiel 45:21
- Daniel 8:21
- Daniel 10:4
- Daniel 10:12
- Daniel 10:13
- Daniel 11:13
- Daniel 11:29
- Hosea 2:7
- Joel 2:23
- Micah 4:8
- Haggai 2:3
- Haggai 2:9
- Zechariah 1:4
- Zechariah 6:2
- Zechariah 7:7
- Zechariah 7:12
- Zechariah 8:11
- Zechariah 12:7
- Zechariah 14:10