Usually translated as
first, former, beginning, foremost, before, of old time, eldest, past, ancestor, beforetime, fore, forefather
Occurrences
Riʼshôwn occurs 180 times in 172 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (10), Exodus (9), Leviticus (9), Numbers (12), Deuteronomy (12), Joshua (5), Judges (4), Ruth (1), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Kings (5), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (11), 2 Chronicles (14), Ezra (6), Nehemiah (3), Esther (3), Job (2), Psalms (2), Proverbs (2), Ecclesiastes (2), Isaiah (18), Jeremiah (9), Ezekiel (5), Daniel (6), Hosea (1), Joel (1), Micah (1), Haggai (2), Zechariah (7)
- Genesis 8:13 — And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first (בָּֽרִאשׁוֹן֙) 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.
- Genesis 13:4 — Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first (בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה): and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 25:25 — And the first (הָרִאשׁוֹן֙) came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
- Genesis 26:1 — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first (הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן) famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
- 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 (לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה).
- Genesis 32:17 — And he commanded the foremost (הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן), saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
- Genesis 33:2 — And he put the handmaids and their children foremost (רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה), and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
- 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 (רִאשֹׁנָֽה).
- 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 (הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן) manner when thou wast his butler.
- Genesis 41:20 — And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first (הָרִאשֹׁנ֖וֹת) seven fat kine:
- Exodus 4:8 — And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first (הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן) sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
- Exodus 12:2 — This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first (רִאשׁ֥וֹן) month of the year to you.
- Exodus 12:15 — Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first (הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן) 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.
- 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 (הָרִאשֹׁ֖ן) until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16 — And in the first (הָרִאשׁוֹן֙) 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.
- Exodus 12:18 — In the first (בָּרִאשֹׁ֡ן) 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.
- Exodus 34:1 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first (כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים): and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
- 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 (הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים) tables, which thou brakest.
- Exodus 34:4 — And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first (כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֗ים); 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.
- Exodus 40:2 — On the first day of the first (הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן) month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
- Exodus 40:17 — And it came to pass in the first (הָרִאשׁ֛וֹן) month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
- Leviticus 4:21 — And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first (הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן) bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
- Leviticus 5:8 — And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first (רִאשׁוֹנָ֑ה), and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
- Leviticus 9:15 — And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first (כָּרִאשֽׁוֹן).
- Leviticus 23:5 — In the fourteenth day of the first (הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן) month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- Leviticus 23:7 — In the first (הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן) day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- Leviticus 23:35 — On the first (הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן) day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- Leviticus 23:39 — Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first (הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙) day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
- Leviticus 23:40 — And ye shall take you on the first (הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן) day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
- Leviticus 26:45 — But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors (רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים), whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
- Numbers 2:9 — All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first (רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה) set forth.
- Numbers 6:12 — And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before (הָרִאשֹׁנִים֙) shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
- Numbers 7:12 — And he that offered his offering the first (הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן) day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
- Numbers 9:1 — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first (הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן) month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 9:5 — And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first (בָּרִאשׁ֡וֹן) month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
- Numbers 10:13 — And they first (בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה) took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
- Numbers 10:14 — In the first (בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֖ה) place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 20:1 — Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first (הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן) month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
- Numbers 21:26 — For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former (הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן) king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
- Numbers 28:16 — And in the fourteenth day of the first (הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן) month is the passover of the LORD.
- Numbers 28:18 — In the first (הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן) day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
- Numbers 33:3 — And they departed from Rameses in the first (הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן) month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:3 — And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first (הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן) month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Deuteronomy 4:32 — For ask now of the days that are past (רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים), which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
- Deuteronomy 9:18 — And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first (כָּרִאשֹׁנָ֗ה), forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 — At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first (כָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים), and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 10:2 — And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first (הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים) tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
- Deuteronomy 10:3 — And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first (כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים), and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
- Deuteronomy 10:4 — And he wrote on the tables, according to the first (הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן) writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 — And I stayed in the mount, according to the first (הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים) time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.