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Strong H72252 sensesרֵאשִׁית

first: beginning · first: best

Transliteration
rê'shîyth
Pronunciation
ray-sheeth'

The 2 senses of Strong H7225

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H7225 appears in 49 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. first: beginningH7225G: beginning39 verses · 16 books
  2. first: bestH7225H: best10 verses · 7 books

General definition

From the same as H7218; the {first} in {place} {time} order or rank (specifically a firstfruit): - {beginning} chief ({-est}) first ({-fruits} {part} {time}) principal thing.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • beginning16
  • firstfruits11
  • chief8
  • first8
  • begin2
  • chiefest1
  • firstfruit1
  • part1
  • thing1
  • time1

First verses

  1. Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
  2. Genesis 10:10
    And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  3. Genesis 49:3
    Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
  4. Exodus 23:19
    The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
  5. Exodus 34:26
    The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
  6. Leviticus 2:12
    As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
  7. Leviticus 23:10
    Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
  8. Numbers 15:20
    Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
  9. Numbers 15:21
    Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.
  10. Numbers 18:12
    All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
  11. Numbers 24:20
    And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
  12. Deuteronomy 11:12
    A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
  13. Deuteronomy 18:4
    The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
  14. Deuteronomy 21:17
    But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
  15. Deuteronomy 26:2
    That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.
  16. Deuteronomy 26:10
    And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God:
  17. Deuteronomy 33:21
    And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.
  18. 1 Samuel 2:29
    Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
  19. 1 Samuel 15:21
    But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.
  20. 2 Chronicles 31:5
    And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.