רִאשׁוֹן (ri.shon) means “first” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ree-shone' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
רִאשׁוֹן · ri.shon · first
: first 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
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רִאשׁוֹן · ri.shon · first: previous
: previous 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
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רִאשׁוֹן · ri.shon · first: chief
: chief 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
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or רִאשֹׁן; from H7221 (רִאשָׁה); first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV glosses: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the first | 22 |
| of the first | 16 |
| on the first | 9 |
| first | 7 |
| from beginning | 7 |
| in the first | 6 |
| the former things | 6 |
| of the first month | 5 |
| the former | 5 |
| day of the first | 4 |
| like the originals | 4 |
| am the first | 2 |
| as in former times | 2 |
| as the first | 2 |
| at the beginning | 2 |
| before | 2 |
| from first | 2 |
| like the first | 2 |
| previously | 2 |
| the earlier | 2 |
| their former | 2 |
| according to the old | 1 |
| against the former | 1 |
| and i will first | 1 |
| as at first | 1 |
| as before | 1 |
| as i did in the past | 1 |
| as i had done the first time | 1 |
| as in the first | 1 |
| at first | 1 |
| but the preceding | 1 |
| by your ancestors | 1 |
| earlier | 1 |
| for the first | 1 |
| from the beginning | 1 |
| from the first | 1 |
| full payment for their former | 1 |
| highest | 1 |
| i first | 1 |
| i was the first to tell | 1 |
| in front | 1 |
| in its former | 1 |
| in that first | 1 |
| in the earlier | 1 |
| in the first month | 1 |
| in the lead | 1 |
| in the past | 1 |
| is the first | 1 |
| it first | 1 |
| like the first one | 1 |
| long | 1 |
| long ago | 1 |
| my first | 1 |
| now the first | 1 |
| of old | 1 |
| of past | 1 |
| of the chief | 1 |
| of those who came before | 1 |
| on | 1 |
| past | 1 |
| quickly | 1 |
| that were there first | 1 |
| the first man | 1 |
| the first ones had answered | 1 |
| the first time | 1 |
| the old | 1 |
| the older sons | 1 |
| the one in the lead | 1 |
| the original | 1 |
| the places long | 1 |
| they did the first time | 1 |
| this first time | 1 |
| was formerly | 1 |
| were chief officials | 1 |
| were you the first | 1 |
| what happened | 1 |
| which was assigned the first | 1 |
| who shall first | 1 |
| with their fathers | 1 |
| you did | 1 |
| your first | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| first | 20 |
| in the first | 19 |
| the first | 17 |
| of the first | 16 |
| at the first | 6 |
| like unto the first | 4 |
| the former | 4 |
| after the former | 3 |
| as at the first | 3 |
| now the first | 3 |
| on the first | 3 |
| that were in the first | 3 |
| the former things | 3 |
| us as at the first | 3 |
| according to the first | 2 |
| before | 2 |
| for the first | 2 |
| from the first | 2 |
| of the former | 2 |
| shall be first | 2 |
| aforetime | 1 |
| after the first | 1 |
| after their former | 1 |
| against the former | 1 |
| all the eldest | 1 |
| and first | 1 |
| and in the first | 1 |
| and it came to pass in the first | 1 |
| and that first | 1 |
| and the first | 1 |
| and the former | 1 |
| and they first | 1 |
| as at the beginning | 1 |
| as beforetime | 1 |
| as in the former | 1 |
| as the first | 1 |
| at the beginning | 1 |
| because the former | 1 |
| behold the former things | 1 |
| but it shall not be as the former | 1 |
| but the former | 1 |
| chief | 1 |
| day of the first | 1 |
| even the first | 1 |
| for from the first | 1 |
| foremost | 1 |
| from the beginning | 1 |
| had for theirs was the first | 1 |
| hath been chief | 1 |
| he in the first | 1 |
| her former | 1 |
| i pray thee of the former | 1 |
| in her first | 1 |
| in it all the former | 1 |
| in old time | 1 |
| not against us former | 1 |
| not at the first | 1 |
| of former | 1 |
| of the chief | 1 |
| of the foremost | 1 |
| of their ancestors | 1 |
| of their forefathers | 1 |
| over the first | 1 |
| should not be first | 1 |
| than at the beginning | 1 |
| than the former | 1 |
| that are past | 1 |
| that the former | 1 |
| that were before | 1 |
| the foremost | 1 |
| their former | 1 |
| them as at the first | 1 |
| there at the first | 1 |
| these shall first | 1 |
| thou the first | 1 |
| thy first | 1 |
| thy former | 1 |
| to my first | 1 |
| unto whom the former | 1 |
| us former things | 1 |
| which they of old time | 1 |
| ye not the former things | 1 |
| you on the first | 1 |
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In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Read word by wordto the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Read word by wordThe first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Read word by wordNow there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Read word by wordand he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
Read word by wordHe instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.18
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Read word by wordAnd as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
Read word by wordWithin three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
Read word by wordThen the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.
Read word by word“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
Read word by wordFor seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Read word by wordOn the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.
Read word by wordIn the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Read word by wordSo Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.
Read word by word“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordSo the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
Read word by wordThen he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
Read word by wordHe is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
Read word by wordAaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.
Read word by wordThe Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Read word by wordOn the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
Read word by wordOn the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
Read word by wordOn the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.
Read word by wordOn the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
Read word by wordBut for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
Read word by wordThe total number of men in the divisions of the camp of Judah is 186,400; they shall set out first.
Read word by wordHe must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
Read word by wordOn the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.
Read word by wordIn the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Read word by wordand they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read word by wordThey set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.
Read word by wordFirst, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.
Read word by wordIn the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Read word by wordHeshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
Read word by wordThe fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Read word by wordOn the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Read word by wordOn the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
Read word by wordIndeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
Read word by wordThen I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Read word by wordAt that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
Read word by wordAnd I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”
Read word by wordSo I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
Read word by wordI stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
Read word by wordInstead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.10
No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
Read word by wordThe hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
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