Strong's Hebrew · H7223
רִאשׁוֹן
riʼshôwn · ree-shone'
Definitionfirst, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
Derivationor רִאשֹׁן; from H7221 (רִאשָׁה);
KJV usageancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Occurrences182 in the KJV · 174 verses
רִאשׁוֹן in Scripture
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.
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