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:
2 Chronicles 22:1: "to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king"
2 Chronicles 25:26: "Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written"
2 Chronicles 26:22: "Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son"
2 Chronicles 28:26: "of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in"
2 Chronicles 29:3: "He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened"
2 Chronicles 29:3: "in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors"
2 Chronicles 29:17: "Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month"
2 Chronicles 29:17: "days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end."
2 Chronicles 35:1: "and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month."
2 Chronicles 35:27: "And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings"
Ezra 3:12: "who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid"
Ezra 6:19: "the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month."
Ezra 7:9: "For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon,"
Ezra 8:31: "from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go"
Ezra 9:2: "yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass."
Ezra 10:17: "by the first day of the first month."
Nehemiah 5:15: " But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken"
Nehemiah 7:5: "a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written"
Nehemiah 8:18: "Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day,"
Esther 1:14: "the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)"
Esther 3:7: " In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year"
Esther 3:12: "called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all"
Job 8:8: "For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:"
Job 15:7: " Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?"
Psalms 79:8: "O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for"
Psalms 89:49: "Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?"
Proverbs 18:17: " He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbor cometh and searcheth"
Proverbs 20:21: "An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed."
Ecclesiastes 1:11: "There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come"
Ecclesiastes 7:10: "not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better"
Isaiah 1:26: "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called,"
Isaiah 9:1: "be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land"
Isaiah 41:4: "from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I"
Isaiah 41:22: "what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider"
Isaiah 41:27: " The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings."
Isaiah 42:9: "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth"
Isaiah 43:9: "among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear,"
Isaiah 43:18: "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old."
Isaiah 43:27: " Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed"
Isaiah 44:6: "the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside"
Isaiah 46:9: "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none"
Isaiah 48:3: "I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed"
Isaiah 48:12: "I am he; I am the first, I also am the last."
Isaiah 52:4: "GOD, My people went down formerly into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian"
Isaiah 60:9: "shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far,"
Isaiah 61:4: "the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,"
Isaiah 65:7: "me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom."
Isaiah 65:16: "by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid"
Isaiah 65:17: "heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come"
Jeremiah 7:12: "where I set my name at the first, and see what I did"
