Strong H72233 sensesרִאשׁוֹן

The 3 senses of Strong H7223

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H7223 appears in 174 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. firstH7223G: first121 verses · 24 books
2. first: previousH7223H: previous50 verses · 21 books
3. first: chiefH7223I: chief4 verses · 4 books

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• first118
• former25
• thing6
• beginning4
• be3
• foremost3
• chief2
• time2
• before2
• thy2
• aforetime1
• ancestor1

First verses

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Genesis 25:25
   And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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?
7. Genesis 33:2
   And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Genesis 41:20
    And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
11. 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.
12. Exodus 12:2
    This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Exodus 40:2
    On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
19. 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.
20. 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.