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Lexicon :: Strong's H7225 - rē'šîṯ

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רֵאשִׁית
Transliteration
rē'šîṯ
Pronunciation
ray-sheeth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as רֹאשׁ (H7218)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2097e

Strong’s Definitions

רֵאשִׁית rêʼshîyth, ray-sheeth'; 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x

The KJV translates Strong's H7225 in the following manner: beginning (18x), firstfruits (11x), first (9x), chief (8x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x
The KJV translates Strong's H7225 in the following manner: beginning (18x), firstfruits (11x), first (9x), chief (8x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. first, beginning, best, chief

    1. beginning

    2. first

    3. chief

    4. choice part

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רֵאשִׁית rêʼshîyth, ray-sheeth'; 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.
STRONGS H7225: Abbreviations
† [רֵאשִׁית] noun feminine beginning, chief (for *רְאֵשִׁית NöGGA 1884, 1019, compare HolzHexateuch 465; Syriac bdb091201); — absolute ר׳ Deuteronomy 33:21+, construct ר׳ Genesis 10:10+, רֵשִׁית Deuteronomy 11:12; suffix רֵאשִׁיתוֺ Ecclesiastes 7:8, רֵאשִׁתוֺ Job 42:12, etc.; —
1.
a. beginning of kingdom Genesis 10:10 (J), year Deuteronomy 11:12, reign Jeremiah 26:1; Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 49:34;= first phase, step, or element in course of events Isaiah 46:10 (opposed to אַחֲרִית); of a thing (דָּבָר) Ecclesiastes 7:8 (opposed to id.); of sin Micah 1:13, strife Proverbs 17:14, wisdom Psalm 111:10, knowledge Proverbs 1:7 thy beginning Job 8:7 —his beginning Job 42:12 (both opposed to אַחֲרִית), ר׳ before clause, בָּרָא א׳ בְּר׳ Genesis 1:1 in the beginning when god created (> absolute in the beginning God created); אֹנִי ר׳ Genesis 49:3 (poem) beginning (first product) of my manly vigour (|| בְּכֹרִי כֹּחִי so Deuteronomy 21:17; Psalm 78:51 (both || בְּכוֺת Psalm 105:36; compare דֵּרְכֵי אֵל ר׳ Job 40:19 (of hippopotamus), דַּרְכּוֺ ר׳ Proverbs 8:22 (of wisdom);=first season (of a tree) Hosea 9:10; גּוֺיִם ר׳ Numbers 24:20 (JE), first, earliest, of nations.
b. first of fruits Exodus 23:19 (E), Exodus 34:26 (JE), Deuteronomy 26:2, 10; Ezekiel 44:30.a, of harvest Leviticus 23:10 (H), grain Deuteronomy 18:4; 2 Chronicles 31:5 dough Numbers 15:20, 21 (P), Ezekiel 44:30b Nehemiah 10:38, wool Deuteronomy 18:4; of כָּלתְּֿבוּאָתֶ֑ךָ Proverbs 3:9; Israel is תְּבוּאָתֹה ר׳ Jeremiah 2:3 (i.e. of י׳'s increase); ר׳ =first-fruits Leviticus 2:12 (P), Numbers 18:12 (P), Nehemiah 12:44; הָאָרֶץ ר׳ Ezekiel 48:14
2. first chief, Amos 6:1; גְּבוּרָתָם ר׳ Jeremiah 49:35 (of bows); so apparently בְּנֵי עַמּוֺן ר׳ Daniel 11:41, i.e. the principal part of them (Buhl Marti conjecture שְׁאֵרִית after Syriac Version); מַשְׁאוֺתֵיכֶם ר׳ Ezekiel 20:40, i.e. your chief oblations; שְׁמָנִים ר׳ Amos 6:6, i.e. choice oils; = choice part, of land Deuteronomy 33:21, offering 1 Samuel 2:29, הַחֵרֶם 1 Samuel 15:21; absolute chief thing Proverbs 4:7 (of wisdom).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 10:10; 10:10; 49:3

Exodus

23:19; 34:26

Leviticus

2:12; 23:10

Numbers

15:20; 15:21; 18:12; 24:20

Deuteronomy

11:12; 11:12; 18:4; 18:4; 21:17; 26:2; 26:10; 33:21; 33:21

1 Samuel

2:29; 15:21

2 Chronicles

31:5

Nehemiah

10:38; 12:44

Job

8:7; 40:19; 42:12; 42:12

Psalms

78:51; 105:36; 111:10

Proverbs

1:7; 3:9; 4:7; 8:22; 17:14

Ecclesiastes

7:8; 7:8

Isaiah

46:10

Jeremiah

2:3; 26:1; 27:1; 28:1; 49:34; 49:35

Ezekiel

20:40; 44:30; 44:30; 48:14

Daniel

11:41

Hosea

9:10

Amos

6:1; 6:6

Micah

1:13

H7225

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7225 matches the Hebrew רֵאשִׁית (rē'šîṯ),
which occurs 51 times in 49 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - “Reuben, you are my firstborn,
My might and the beginning of my strength,
The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - “The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - “The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - ‘As for the offering of the firstfruits, you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - ‘You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - ‘Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the LORD a heave offering throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12 - “All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to the LORD, I have given them to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said:

“Amalek was first among the nations,
But shall be last until he perishes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12 - “a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - “The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - “But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - “that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - ‘and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.’ Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21 - He provided the first part for himself,
Because a lawgiver’s portion was reserved there.
He came with the heads of the people;
He administered the justice of the LORD,
And His judgments with Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - ‘Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - “But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - And at the same time some were appointed over the rooms of the storehouse for the offerings, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who ministered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7 - Though your beginning was small,
Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:19 - He is the first of the ways of God;
Only He who made him can bring near His sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - Now the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:51

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 - And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36 - He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land,
The first of all their strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 111:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:10 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all those who do His commandments.
His praise endures forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:9 - Honor the LORD with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:7 - Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 - “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:14 - The beginning of strife is like releasing water;
Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - The end of a thing is better than its beginning;
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 - Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - Israel was holiness to the LORD,
The firstfruits of His increase.
All that devour him will offend;
Disaster will come upon them,” says the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim[fn] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 - And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:34 - The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:35 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts:

‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
The foremost of their might.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - “For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - “The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest’s; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:14 - “And they shall not sell or exchange any of it; they may not alienate this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - “He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - “I found Israel
Like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal Peor,
And separated themselves to that shame;
They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Woe to you who are at ease in Zion,
And trust in Mount Samaria,
Notable persons in the chief nation,
To whom the house of Israel comes!

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:6 - Who drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - O inhabitant of Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
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