Strong's Hebrew · H7225
רֵאשִׁית
rêʼshîyth · ray-sheeth'
beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Definition
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
Derivation
from the same as H7218 (רֹאשׁ);
Appears 51 times in Scripture
“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
“He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.”
“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.”
“you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,”
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
“His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
“You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma.”
“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.””
““Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).