Strong's #7223: ri'shown (pronounced ree-shone')
or riishon {ree-shone'}; from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun):--ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
ri'shôn
1) first, primary, former (adjective)
1a) former (of time)
1a1) ancestors
1a2) former things
1b) foremost (of location)
1c) first (in time)
1d) first, chief (in degree)
2) first, before, formerly, at first (adverb)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H7221
Usage:
This word is used 182 times:
Deuteronomy 13:9: "thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand"
Deuteronomy 16:4: "the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning."
Deuteronomy 17:7: "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all"
Deuteronomy 19:14: "thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit"
Deuteronomy 24:4: " Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again"
Joshua 4:19: "out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east"
Joshua 8:5: "they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before"
Joshua 8:6: "They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before"
Joshua 8:33: "as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless"
Joshua 21:10: "who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot."
Judges 18:29: "the name of the city was Laish at the first."
Judges 20:22: "in the place where they put themselves in array the first day."
Judges 20:32: "They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee,"
Judges 20:39: "they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle."
Ruth 3:10: "kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men,"
1 Samuel 14:14: " And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was"
1 Samuel 17:30: "and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner."
2 Samuel 7:10: "afflict them any more, as formerly,"
2 Samuel 18:27: "thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok."
2 Samuel 19:20: "have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph"
2 Samuel 19:43: "us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words"
2 Samuel 20:18: "saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel:"
2 Samuel 21:9: "and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest."
1 Kings 13:6: "the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before."
1 Kings 17:13: "me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make"
1 Kings 18:25: "you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call"
1 Kings 20:9: "thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may"
1 Kings 20:17: "of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying,"
2 Kings 1:14: "and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life"
2 Kings 17:34: "day they do after the former manners: they fear not"
2 Kings 17:40: "but they did after their former manner."
1 Chronicles 9:2: " Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites,"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief."
1 Chronicles 12:15: "went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown"
1 Chronicles 15:13: "For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach"
1 Chronicles 17:9: "waste them any more, as at the beginning,"
1 Chronicles 18:17: "and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king."
1 Chronicles 24:7: " Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,"
1 Chronicles 25:9: " Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who"
1 Chronicles 27:2: "Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel:"
1 Chronicles 27:2: "Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel:"
1 Chronicles 27:3: "of all the captains of the host for the first month."
1 Chronicles 29:29: "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in"
2 Chronicles 3:3: "of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth"
2 Chronicles 9:29: "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written"
2 Chronicles 12:15: "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book"
2 Chronicles 16:11: "And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in"
2 Chronicles 17:3: "Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought"
2 Chronicles 20:34: "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book"
