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

2 Samuel 19:20

For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

2 Samuel 19:43

And 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 ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.(k)

2 Samuel 20:18

Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.(j)

2 Samuel 21:9

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord : and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

1 Kings 13:6

And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the Lord , and the king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.(b)

1 Kings 17:13

And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

1 Kings 18:25

And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.

1 Kings 20:9

Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben–hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.

1 Kings 20:17

And 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 of Samaria.

2 Kings 1:14

Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

2 Kings 17:34

Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord , neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

2 Kings 17:40

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

1 Chronicles 9:2

Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

1 Chronicles 11:6

And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.(d)

1 Chronicles 12:15

These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.(f)

1 Chronicles 15:13

For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

1 Chronicles 17:9

Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

1 Chronicles 18:17

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.(n)

1 Chronicles 24:7

Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

1 Chronicles 25:9

Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:

1 Chronicles 27:2

Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27:3

Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.

1 Chronicles 29:29

Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,(h)

2 Chronicles 3:3

Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.(c)

2 Chronicles 9:29

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?(m)

2 Chronicles 12:15

Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.(d)

2 Chronicles 16:11

And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 17:3

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;(a)

2 Chronicles 20:34

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.(m)

(n)

2 Chronicles 22:1

And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that 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

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

2 Chronicles 26:22

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

2 Chronicles 28:26

Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and 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

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H7223