Strong's Concordance H7223

Original Word: רִאשׁוֹן
Transliteration: riʼshôwn
Phonetic Spelling: ree-shone'
or רִאשֹׁן; from H7221; 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.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Chronicles 29:17 - Now they began on the first day of the first H7223 month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first H7223 month they made an end.

2 Chronicles 35:1 - Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first H7223 month.

2 Chronicles 35:27 - And his deeds, first H7223 and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Ezra 3:12 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first H7223 house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

Ezra 6:19 - And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first H7223 month.

Ezra 7:9 - For upon the first day of the first H7223 month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

Ezra 8:31 - Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first H7223 month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Ezra 9:2 - For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief H7223 in this trespass.

Ezra 10:17 - And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first H7223 month.

Nehemiah 5:15 - But the former H7223 governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 7:5 - And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, H7223 and found written therein,

Nehemiah 8:18 - Also day by day, from the first H7223 day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

Esther 1:14 - And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first H7223 in the kingdom;)

Esther 3:7 - In the first H7223 month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

Esther 3:12 - Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first H7223 month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

Job 8:8 - For enquire, I pray thee, of the former H7223 H7223 age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Job 15:7 - Art thou the first H7223 H7223 man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Psalms 79:8 - O remember not against us former H7223 iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Psalms 89:49 - Lord, where are thy former H7223 lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Proverbs 18:17 - He that is first H7223 in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

Proverbs 20:21 - An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; H7223 but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Ecclesiastes 1:11 - There is no remembrance of former H7223 things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former H7223 days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

Isaiah 1:26 - And I will restore thy judges as at the first, H7223 and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Isaiah 9:1 - Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first H7223 he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 41:4 - Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, H7223 and with the last; I am he.

Isaiah 41:22 - Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, H7223 what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

Isaiah 41:27 - The first H7223 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 H7223 are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

Isaiah 43:9 - Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? H7223 let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

Isaiah 43:18 - Remember ye not the former things, H7223 neither consider the things of old.

Isaiah 43:27 - Thy first H7223 father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Isaiah 44:6 - Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, H7223 and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Isaiah 46:9 - Remember the former things H7223 of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 48:3 - I have declared the former things H7223 from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Isaiah 48:12 - Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, H7223 I also am the last.

Isaiah 52:4 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime H7223 into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Isaiah 60:9 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, H7223 to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Isaiah 61:4 - And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former H7223 desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isaiah 65:7 - Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former H7223 work into their bosom.

Isaiah 65:16 - That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former H7223 troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

Isaiah 65:17 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former H7223 shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Jeremiah 7:12 - But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, H7223 and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Jeremiah 11:10 - They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, H7223 which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 16:18 - And first H7223 I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

Jeremiah 17:12 - A glorious high throne from the beginning H7223 is the place of our sanctuary.

Jeremiah 33:7 - And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. H7223

Jeremiah 33:11 - The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, H7223 saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 34:5 - But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former H7223 kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 36:28 - Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former H7223 words that were in the first H7223 roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.