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:
Jeremiah 11:10: "They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear"
Jeremiah 16:18: " And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled"
Jeremiah 17:12: "A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary."
Jeremiah 33:7: "of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first."
Jeremiah 33:11: "the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 34:5: "in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before"
Jeremiah 36:28: "in it all the former words that were in"
Jeremiah 36:28: "that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king"
Jeremiah 50:17: "sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last"
Ezekiel 29:17: "in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD"
Ezekiel 30:20: "And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word"
Ezekiel 40:21: "on that side; and the posts thereof and the porches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length"
Ezekiel 45:18: "saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young"
Ezekiel 45:21: " In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast"
Daniel 8:21: "that is between his eyes is the first king."
Daniel 10:4: "And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by"
Daniel 10:12: "Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set"
Daniel 10:13: "days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help"
Daniel 11:13: "a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain"
Daniel 11:29: "toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."
Hosea 2:7: "I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better"
Joel 2:23: "for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first"
Micah 4:8: "of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter"
Haggai 2:3: "this house in her first glory? and how do ye see"
Haggai 2:9: "shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this"
Zechariah 1:4: "as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus"
Zechariah 6:2: " In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;"
Zechariah 7:7: "the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited"
Zechariah 7:12: "of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great"
Zechariah 8:11: "be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts."
Zechariah 12:7: "the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David"
Zechariah 14:10: "from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto"
