# H7223 רִאשׁוֹן

רִאשׁוֹן (riʼshôwn), Strong’s H7223: first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun) KJV: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most)…. Occurs 182 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H7223 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*riʼshôwn* — first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)

KJV: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most)…

Derived from [רִאשָׁה riʼshâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7221) (a beginning)

Occurs 182 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רִאשׁוֹן 182 adj. former, first, chief

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 8:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=13) — In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth…
- [Genesis 13:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=4) — to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name.
- [Genesis 25:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=25) — The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
- [Genesis 26:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=1) — There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to…
- [Genesis 28:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=19) — He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- [Genesis 32:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=18) — He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are…
- [Genesis 33:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=2) — He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- [Genesis 38:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=28) — When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came…
- [Genesis 40:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=13) — Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup…
- [Genesis 41:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=20) — The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;