רִאשׁוֹן
first
also: primary, former fuller range ↓
H7223
Strong's Hebrew
riʼshôwn
Transliteration
/ree-shone'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
182
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
first, primary, former (adjective)
- former (of time)
- ancestors
- former things
- foremost (of location)
- first (in time)
- first, chief (in degree)
- first, before, formerly, at first (adverb)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 56 times (31%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 42 times (23%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 38 times (21%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 27 times (15%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 9 times (5%)
- Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (4%)
- Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 182 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7223 appears — 174 distinct verses across 30 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 10 verses
- Genesis 8:13 בָּֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ prep det + Adjective Adjective ms It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 13:4 בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָ֑ה prep det + Adjective Ordinal number fs to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 25:25 הָ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
- Genesis 26:1 הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Genesis 28:19 לָ/רִאשֹׁנָֽה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Genesis 32:17 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 33:2 רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה adj Adjective fs He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 38:28 רִאשֹׁנָֽה adj Ordinal number ms It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
- Genesis 40:13 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
- Genesis 41:20 הָ/רִאשֹׁנ֖וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
Exodus 9 verses
- Exodus 4:8 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
- Exodus 12:2 רִאשׁ֥וֹן adj Ordinal number ms "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Exodus 12:15 הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן הָ/רִאשֹׁ֖ן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16 הָ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Exodus 12:18 בָּ/רִאשֹׁ֡ן prep det + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
- Exodus 34:1 כָּ/רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים prep det + Adjective Adjective mp ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Exodus 34:4 כָּ/רִאשֹׁנִ֗ים prep det + Adjective Adjective mp He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
- Exodus 40:2 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:17 הָ/רִאשׁ֛וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up.
Leviticus 9 verses
- Leviticus 4:21 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 5:8 רִאשׁוֹנָ֑ה adj Adjective fs He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
- Leviticus 9:15 כָּ/רִאשֽׁוֹן prep det + Adjective Adjective ms He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
- Leviticus 23:5 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.
- Leviticus 23:7 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
- Leviticus 23:35 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
- Leviticus 23:39 הָֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
- Leviticus 23:40 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
- Leviticus 26:45 רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים adj Adjective mp but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'"
Numbers 12 verses
- Numbers 2:9 רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה adj Adjective fs All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
- Numbers 6:12 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִים֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
- Numbers 7:12 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
- Numbers 9:1 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 9:5 בָּ/רִאשׁ֡וֹן prep det + Adjective Adjective ms They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- Numbers 10:13 בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָ֑ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 10:14 בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 20:1 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
- Numbers 21:26 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
- Numbers 28:16 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh's Passover.
- Numbers 28:18 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work;
- Numbers 33:3 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
Deuteronomy 12 verses
- Deuteronomy 4:32 רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים adj Adjective mp For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
- Deuteronomy 9:18 כָּ/רִאשֹׁנָ֗ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 כָּ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים prep det + Adjective Adjective mp At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 10:2 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
- Deuteronomy 10:3 כָּ/רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים prep det + Adjective Adjective mp So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
- Deuteronomy 10:4 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 13:9 בָ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֖ה prep det + Adjective Ordinal number fs but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 16:4 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
- Deuteronomy 17:7 בָ/רִאשֹׁנָה֙ prep det + Adjective Adjective fs The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 19:14 רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים adj Adjective mp You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 24:4 הָ/רִאשׁ֣וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
Joshua 5 verses
- Joshua 4:19 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
- Joshua 8:5 בָּ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֔ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:6 בָּ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:33 בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָֽה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
- Joshua 21:10 רִיאשֹׁנָֽה adj Ordinal number fs and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 18:29 לָ/רִאשֹׁנָֽה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.
- Judges 20:22 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
- Judges 20:32 כְּ/בָ/רִאשֹׁנָ֑ה prep + prep det + Adjective Adjective fs The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.
- Judges 20:39 הָ/רִאשֹׁנָֽה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 14:14 הָ/רִאשֹׁנָ֗ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number fs That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
- 1 Samuel 17:30 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 7:10 בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָֽה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,
- 2 Samuel 18:27 הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. The king said, He is a good man, and comes with good news.
- 2 Samuel 19:20 רִאשׁוֹן֙ adj Adjective ms For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
- 2 Samuel 19:43 רִאשׁ֛וֹן adj Adjective ms The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20:18 בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָה֙ prep det + Adjective Adjective fs Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].
- 2 Samuel 21:9 בָּ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים prep det + Adjective Adjective mp He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [all] seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
1 Kings 5 verses
- 1 Kings 13:6 כְּ/בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָֽה prep + prep det + Adjective Adjective fs The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
- 1 Kings 17:13 בָ/רִאשֹׁנָה֙ prep det + Adjective Adjective fs Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- 1 Kings 18:25 רִאשֹׁנָ֔ה adj Adjective fs Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
- 1 Kings 20:9 בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָה֙ prep det + Adjective Adjective fs Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.
- 1 Kings 20:17 בָּ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria.
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 1:14 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.
- 2 Kings 17:34 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֑ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
- 2 Kings 17:40 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.
1 Chronicles 11 verses
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:6 בָּ/רִ֣אשׁוֹנָ֔ה בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָ֛ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs prep det + Adjective Adjective fs David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
- 1 Chronicles 12:15 הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
- 1 Chronicles 15:13 בָּ/רִ֥אשׁוֹנָ֖ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.
- 1 Chronicles 17:9 בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָֽה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,
- 1 Chronicles 18:17 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
- 1 Chronicles 24:7 הָ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 25:9 הָ/רִאשׁ֛וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 27:2 הָ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:3 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms [He was] of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
- 1 Chronicles 29:29 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number mp Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
2 Chronicles 14 verses
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 הָ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number fs Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 9:29 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
- 2 Chronicles 12:15 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִים֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
- 2 Chronicles 16:11 הָ/רִאשׁוֹנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number mp Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 17:3 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,
- 2 Chronicles 20:34 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 22:1 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִים֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
- 2 Chronicles 25:26 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren't they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
- 2 Chronicles 26:22 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
- 2 Chronicles 28:26 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:3 הָ/רִאשׁוֹנָ֨ה הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.
- 2 Chronicles 29:17 הָ/רִאשׁוֹן֮ הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
- 2 Chronicles 35:1 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 35:27 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Ezra 6 verses
- Ezra 3:12 הָֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
- Ezra 6:19 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
- Ezra 7:9 הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms For on the first [day] of the first 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 on him.
- Ezra 8:31 הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
- Ezra 9:2 רִאשׁוֹנָֽה adj Adjective fs For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
- Ezra 10:17 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 5:15 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֨ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
- Nehemiah 7:5 בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָ֔ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:
- Nehemiah 8:18 הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
Esther 3 verses
- Esther 1:14 רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה adj Adjective fs and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),
- Esther 3:7 הָ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the first month, which 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], which is the month Adar.
- Esther 3:12 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
Job 2 verses
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 79:8 רִאשֹׁ֫נִ֥ים adj Adjective mp Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.
- Psalms 89:49 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֥ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Proverbs 2 verses
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:11 לָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים prep det + Adjective Ordinal number mp There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
- Ecclesiastes 7:10 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.
Isaiah 19 verses
- Isaiah 1:26 כְּ/בָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה prep + prep det + Adjective Adjective fs I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, A faithful town.'
- Isaiah 9:1 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
- Isaiah 41:4 רִאשׁ֔וֹן adj Adjective ms Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.
- Isaiah 41:22 הָ/רִאשֹׁנ֣וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
- Isaiah 41:27 רִאשׁ֥וֹן adj Adjective ms [I am the] first [who says] to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.
- Isaiah 42:9 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנ֖וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.
- Isaiah 43:9 וְ/רִֽאשֹׁנ֖וֹת conj + Adjective Adjective fp Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
- Isaiah 43:18 רִֽאשֹׁנ֑וֹת adj Adjective fp Don't remember the former things, neither consider the things of old.
- Isaiah 43:27 הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
- Isaiah 44:6 רִאשׁוֹן֙ adj Adjective ms Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Isaiah 46:9 רִאשֹׁנ֖וֹת adj Adjective fp Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
- Isaiah 48:3 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנוֹת֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.
- Isaiah 48:12 רִאשׁ֔וֹן adj Adjective ms Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
- Isaiah 52:4 בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
- Isaiah 60:9 בָּ/רִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
- Isaiah 61:4 רִֽאשֹׁנִ֖ים adj Adjective mp They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
- Isaiah 65:7 רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה adj Adjective fs your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
- Isaiah 65:16 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
- Isaiah 65:17 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Jeremiah 9 verses
- Jeremiah 7:12 בָּ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֑ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- Jeremiah 11:10 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֗ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone 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.
- Jeremiah 16:18 רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֗ה adj Adjective fs First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
- Jeremiah 17:12 מֵֽ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן prep + Adjective Adjective ms A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
- Jeremiah 33:7 כְּ/בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָֽה prep + prep det + Adjective Adjective fs I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
- Jeremiah 33:11 כְּ/בָ/רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה prep + prep det + Adjective Adjective fs 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 loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 34:5 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 36:28 הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
- Jeremiah 50:17 הָ/רִאשׁ֤וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 29:17 בָּֽ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן prep det + Adjective Adjective ms It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 30:20 בָּֽ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן prep det + Adjective Adjective ms It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 40:21 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 45:18 בָּֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ prep det + Adjective Adjective ms Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
- Ezekiel 45:21 בָּ֠/רִאשׁוֹן prep det + Adjective Adjective ms In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Daniel 6 verses
- Daniel 8:21 הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
- Daniel 10:4 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
- Daniel 10:12 הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Then said he to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I am come for your words' sake.
- Daniel 10:13 הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
- Daniel 11:13 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms The king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the end of the times, [even of] years, with a great army and with much substance.
- Daniel 11:29 כָ/רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה prep det + Adjective Ordinal number fs At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former.
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Haggai 2 verses
- Haggai 2:3 הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing?
- Haggai 2:9 הָ֣/רִאשׁ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms 'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of Hosts; 'and in this place will I give peace,' says Yahweh of Hosts."
Zechariah 7 verses
- Zechariah 1:4 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
- Zechariah 6:2 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number fs In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
- Zechariah 7:7 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"
- Zechariah 7:12 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֑ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.
- Zechariah 8:11 הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִים֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Zechariah 12:7 בָּ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
- Zechariah 14:10 הָֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses.
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At its core, ראשון (riʼshôwn) means “first.” It first appears in Genesis 8:13. Spanning 174 verses in 30 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “primary” and “former”. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ראשה and ראשני. Dig into 174-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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first
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H7223 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 174
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 174 distinct verses.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #257
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 257 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 19 verses 11%
- 2 Chronicles 14 verses 8%
- Numbers 12 verses 7%
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 174 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 70 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 52 verses · 30%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 52 verses · 30%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: First 91×, Former 14×, Day of the first 8×
- American Standard Version: First 85×, Former 15×, Day of the first 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: First 75×, Beginning 10×, Former 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: First 114×, Former 24×, First things 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7223 across 182 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 42 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7223 across 181 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7223 across 171 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7223 across 188 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
8 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
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BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. former:
- a. in time, former of two Gn 25:25 (J), 41:20 (E), Dt 10:1, 2, 3, 4, 10; 24:4, cf. Ho 2:9; Lv 4:21; 9:15 (both P), Ju 20:39; 2 K 1:14; Hg 2:3, 9; Ezr 3:12 +; more gen. former, previous, Nu 21:26 (JE), Mi 4:8; 2 K 17:34, 40; Zc 1:4; 7:7, 12; 8:11; Ne 5:15; Ec 17:10 ψ 79:8 +; כָּעֵת הָר׳ Is 8:23; דִּבְרֵי דויד הָר׳ †1 Ch 29:29 the doings of David, the former and the latter (הָאַחֲרֹנִים), cf. †2 Ch 9:29; 12:15; 16:11; 20:34; 25:26; 26:22; 28:26; 35:27; early days of harvest 2 S 21:9; רִאשֹׁנִים as subst., former persons, ancestors, men of old, Dt 19:14; Lv 26:45 (H), Ec 1:11 (opp. אַחֲרֹנִים); (הָ)רִאשֹׁנוֹת as subst. the former things, i.e. past events Is 41:22; 43:9, 18; 46:9; 48:3, earlier predictions 42:9. e.g. Genesis 25:25
- b. loc., foremost, of two 2 S 18:27. e.g. 2 Samuel 18:27
- 2. first:
- a. in time, הַמַּכָּה הָר׳ 1 S 14:14 the first slaughter (prelim. to general carnage); וְלֹא־הָיָה דְּבָרִי ר׳ 2 S 19:44 was not my word first? ר׳ in appos. with pers. subj. †2 S 19:21 I am come as first, cf. perhaps Is 41:27 (ins. אָמַרְתִּי Ges De הִגַּדְתִּים for הִנֵּה הִנָּם, CheHpt KitDi), and הָר׳ Je 50:17 (opp. הָאַחֲרוֹן), Is 43:27; ר׳ abs., first of mankind Jb 15:17; abs. of י׳, I (am the) first Is 41:4 (+ אֶת־ אַחֲרֹנִים), + אַחֲרוֹן 44:6; 48:12; abs. of time, מֵרִאשׁוֹן Je 17:12 from the beginning; especially first of a def. series (sometimes opp. אַחֲרוֹן), first day of feast Dt 16:4; Ex 12:15(×2), 16 + 5 times P (H), Ne 8:18; usually first month (חֹדֶשׁ) Ex 40:2, 17; Lv 23:5 + 6 times P, 1 Ch 12:16 (van d. H. v 15) + 10 times Ch Ezr, Est 3:7; Dn 10:4, חֹדֶשׁ om. Gn 8:13; Ex 12:2, 18; Nu 9:5 (all P) Ez 29:17; 30:20; 45:18, 21, so Jo 2:23, but read כָּרִאשׁוֹנָה (3 a) 𝔊 𝔖 We Now and Dr. e.g. 1 Samuel 14:14
- b. first in degree, chief: יַד הַשָּׁרִים … רִאשׁוֹנָה Ezr 9:2 the hand of the princes … has been first in this trespass; 1 Ch 18:17; Dn 10:13 (cf. Est 1:14 infr.). e.g. Ezra 9:2
- 3.
- a. fem. c. prep. as adv.; phr.: (1) of time, בָּרִאשֹׁנָה Gn 13:4 (J), = before, formerly, so Jos 8:5, 6 (JE), 2 S 7:10; 20:18; Je 7:12; Is 52:4, לָר׳ = before, formerly, Gn 28:19 (J), Ju 18:29; so כְּבָר׳ as formerly Ju 20:32; 1 K 13:6; Is 1:26; Je 33:7, 11, = כָּר׳ Dt 9:15; Dn 11:29 (opp. כָּאַחֲרוֹנָה); בָּר׳ = at first, first of all, Dt 13:10; 17:7 Nu 10:13 (P) Jos 8:33 (D), 1 K 17:13; 20:9; Zc 12:7; Pr 20:21 (opp. אַחֲרִיתָהּ), 1 Ch 11:6(×2); 17:9; Ne 7:5; לְמַבָּרִאשׁוֹנָה 1 Ch 15:13 (= לְמַה־בָּר׳) for what was at first, etc. (מָה 1 e); (2) loc., בָּר׳, i.e. at the head of an army 1 K 20:17, a procession Nu 10:14 (P), cf. Is 60:9. e.g. Genesis 13:4
- b. רִאשֹׁנָה alone as adv.: (1) of time, first Gn 38:28 (J), 1 K 18:25; Je 16:18; Lv 5:8; Nu 2:9; Jos 21:10 (all P), Is 65:7 (Ew De Che Di Du Skinner, > adj. Ges Hi Kn); (2) of place Gn 33:2 (J); (3) of degree, rank, Est 1:14. e.g. Genesis 38:28
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj. former, first, chief (i heightened from orig. a, v. √);—abs. ר׳ Ho 2:19 +, שֹׁן- Ex 12:15 +, רִישׁוֹן Jb 8:8, cstr. רִאשׁוֹן Jb 15:7 Qr (Kt ראישון, and so always Cod. Sam. Pent., v. Köii. 1. 225 n); f. רִאשֹׁנָה Ju 20:37 + (Jos 21:10 Kt ראישנה, v. supr.); mpl. רִאשֹׁנִים Ex 34:1 +, fpl. רִאשֹׁנוֹת Is 41:22 +, etc.;—
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Derived from ראשה (riʼshâh) (H7221) — early time.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רִאשׁוֹן
- preced.) first. ר׳ ר׳ one after the other. R. Hash. 17ᵃ, v. עָבַר; a. fr.—Gitt. V, 8 כהן קורא ר׳ וכ׳ a priest reads (from the Torah) the first, and after him &c. Ib. 59ᵇ לפתוח ר׳ ולברך ר׳ וליטול … ר׳ to be the first in opening a meeting, the first in saying the blessing &c., v. מָנָה I; a. v. fr.—Esp. a) ר׳ (or ר׳ לטומאה) first degree of uncleanness, original cause of uncleanness. Toh. II, 2 האוכל אוכל ר׳ ר׳ he who eats food of the first degree of uncleanness becomes himself unclean in the first degree. Ib. 3 הר׳ שבחולין טמא ומטמא secular food of the first degree of uncleanness is unclean and makes unclean. Ib. 4; a. v. fr.—b) ר׳ the person with whom a relationship begins, direct relative (brothers with reference to their respective issues). Snh. 28ᵃ, a. e., v. שֵׁנִי.—c) ר׳ (כלי) a vessel direct from the fire. Ḥull. 104ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. רִאשׁוֹנִים. Yoma III, 11 על הר׳ נאמר וכ׳ to the former was applied the verse &c. Sabb. 112ᵇ אם ר׳ בני וכ׳ if those before us were sons of angels, we are sons of men, and if those before us were sons of men, we are &c. Ib. 56ᵇ מקיש ר׳ לאחרונים the Scriptural text compares the predecessors to the successors. Erub. 64ᵇ דורות הר׳ the earlier generations; a. fr.—Fem. רִאשׁוֹנָה. Ned. 91ᵃ, v. מִשְׁנָה. Keth. 82ᵇ בר׳ in former days, originally. Ned. XI, 12 בר׳ היו אומרים וכ׳ originally the law was that &c.; a. fr.—[Y. Taan. II, 65ᵃ top בדִאשׁוֹנָהּ on its (the year’s) first day (R. Hash. 16ᵇ בתחילתה).]—Pl. רִאשׁוֹנוֹת. Ber. 13ᵃ משכחות את הר׳, v. צָרָה II. Ib. 34ᵃ ר׳ (שלש) the first three sections of the Prayer of Benedictions. B. Kam. 54ᵇ, v. דִּיבַּר; a. v. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 96 distinct written forms H7223 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 10:13 | 12 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 16:4 | 9 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֑וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 10:4 | 9 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 10:12 | 8 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 12:15 | 7 |
| הָֽ/רִאשׁ֔וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 40:13 | 7 |
| הָ/רִאשֽׁוֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:21 | 7 |
| הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 10:10 | 5 |
| הָ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 3:7 | 4 |
| בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָ֑ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 10:13 | 3 |
| הָֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 3:12 | 3 |
| בָּ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 20:17 | 3 |
| הָ/רִאשֹׁנִים֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 12:15 | 3 |
| הָ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 27:2 | 2 |
| רִאשׁ֥וֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 41:27 | 2 |
| בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 20:9 | 2 |
| בָ/רִאשֹׁנָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 17:7 | 2 |
| בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 17:9 | 2 |
| בָּֽ/רִאשׁ֖וֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 29:17 | 2 |
| הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 65:16 | 2 |
| הָ/רִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 36:28 | 2 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֑ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 17:34 | 2 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 34:5 | 2 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֛וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 40:17 | 2 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֣וֹן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 24:4 | 2 |
| כְּ/בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 13:6 | 2 |
| כָּ/רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 10:3 | 2 |
| לָ/רִאשֹׁנָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 28:19 | 2 |
| רִאשׁ֔וֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 41:4 | 2 |
| רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 19:14 | 2 |
| רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 1:14 | 2 |
| רִאשׁוֹן֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 19:20 | 2 |
| בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 52:4 | 1 |
| בָ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֖ה | Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 13:9 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:9 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 60:9 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִ֣אשׁוֹנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:6 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִ֥אשׁוֹנָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 15:13 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 8:5 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֑ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 7:12 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשׁ֡וֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 9:5 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשֹׁ֡ן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 12:18 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 10:14 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשֹׁנָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 8:33 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשֽׁוֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 2:23 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 7:5 | 1 |
| בָּ/רִאשׁוֹנָ֛ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:6 | 1 |
| בָּ֠/רִאשׁוֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 45:21 | 1 |
| בָּֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 45:18 | 1 |
| בָּֽ/רִאשׁוֹן֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 8:13 | 1 |
| הֲ/רִאישׁ֣וֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 15:7 | 1 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנ֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 42:9 | 1 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֔ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 7:7 | 1 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִ֗ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 11:10 | 1 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנִים֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 8:11 | 1 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה | Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Zechariah 6:2 | 1 |
| הָ/רִֽאשֹׁנוֹת֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 48:3 | 1 |
| הָ/רִאשׁ֤וֹן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 50:17 | 1 |
| הָ/רִאשֹׁ֖ן | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 12:15 | 1 |
| הָ/רִאשֹׁנ֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 41:20 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 36 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7223, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 166 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 174 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 8:13
- Exodus 4:8
- Leviticus 4:21
- Numbers 2:9
- Deuteronomy 4:32
- Joshua 4:19
- Judges 18:29
- Ruth 3:10
- 1 Samuel 14:14
- 2 Samuel 7:10
- 1 Kings 13:6
- 2 Kings 1:14
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
