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Lexicon :: Strong's H7225 - rē'šîṯ

Aa
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).
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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 BoxGen 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12 - All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12 - A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21 - He kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7 - And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:19 - He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 - He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36 - He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:10 - The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:9 - Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:7 - The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 - The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:14 - The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 - Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 - When Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 - And it came about in that year, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur the prophet, who came from Gibeon, said to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:34 - The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:35 - This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:14 - And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:6 - Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - Let the war-carriage be yoked to the quick-running horse, you who are living in Lachish: she was the first cause of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the wrongdoings of Israel were seen in you.
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