{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7225",
  "lemma": "רֵאשִׁית",
  "transliteration": "rêʼshîyth",
  "definition": "the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)",
  "kjv": "beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.",
  "occurrences": 51,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H7218",
      "lemma": "רֹאשׁ",
      "transliteration": "rôʼsh",
      "meaning": "the head",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H7218"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "רֵאשִׁית n.f. beginning, chief",
    "a. beginning",
    "b. first",
    "2. first, chief"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:1",
      "text": "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 10:10",
      "text": "The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 49:3",
      "text": "“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:19",
      "text": "You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:26",
      "text": "“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 2:12",
      "text": "As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/2?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 23:10",
      "text": "“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/23?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 15:20",
      "text": "Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 15:21",
      "text": "Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the LORD a wave offering throughout your generations.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 18:12",
      "text": "“I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=12"
    }
  ],
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