H7225 רֵאשִׁית
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 50 KJV occurrences
רֵאשִׁית
rêʼshîyth · ray-sheeth'
Definition
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
KJV Renderings
beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Derivation / Etymology
from the same as H7218 (רֹאשׁ);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 50)
- Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Leviticus 23:10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
- Deuteronomy 18:4The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
- 1 Samuel 15:21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
- Psalms 78:51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
- Proverbs 8:22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
- Jeremiah 27:1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
- Ezekiel 44:30And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.