רִאשׁוֹן

Genesis 8:13 בָּֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ in the first [month]

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 13:4 בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה at the former [time]

to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 25:25 הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ the first

The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

Genesis 26:1 הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> former

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Genesis 28:19 לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ to the former [time]

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Genesis 32:17 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן the first

He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’

Genesis 33:2 רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה first

He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Genesis 38:28 רִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ first

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.

Genesis 40:13 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> former

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 41:20 הָרִאשֹׁנ֖וֹת <the> former

Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

Exodus 4:8 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> former

And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

Exodus 12:2 רִאשׁ֥וֹן [will be] first

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

Exodus 12:15 הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן הָרִאשֹׁ֖ן <the> first

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16 הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ <the> first

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

Exodus 12:18 בָּרִאשֹׁ֡ן in the first [month]

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Exodus 34:1 כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים like the former [tablets], the former

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:4 כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֗ים like the former [tablets]

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

Exodus 40:2 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 40:17 הָרִאשׁ֛וֹן <the> first

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Leviticus 4:21 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> first

Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

Leviticus 5:8 רִאשׁוֹנָ֑ה first

He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;

Leviticus 9:15 כָּרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ like the first [offering]

Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.

Leviticus 23:5 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> first

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Leviticus 23:7 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.

Leviticus 23:35 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

Leviticus 23:39 הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ <the> first

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.

Leviticus 23:40 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> first

On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Leviticus 26:45 רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים [the] forefathers

But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

Numbers 2:9 רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה first

The total number of men in the divisions of the camp of Judah is 186,400; they shall set out first.

Numbers 6:12 הָרִאשֹׁנִים֙ <the> former

He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.

Numbers 7:12 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

On the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.

Numbers 9:1 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

Numbers 9:5 בָּרִאשׁ֡וֹן in the first [month]

and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 10:13 בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה at the first [time]

They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.

Numbers 10:14 בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֖ה at the first

First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.

Numbers 20:1 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Numbers 21:26 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> former

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

Numbers 28:16 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> first

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

Numbers 28:18 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

Numbers 33:3 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> first

On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

Deuteronomy 4:32 רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים former

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

Deuteronomy 9:18 כָּרִאשֹׁנָ֗ה like the former [time]

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:1 כָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים like the former [tablets]

At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10:2 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

Deuteronomy 10:3 כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים like the former [tablets]

So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:4 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> former

And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

Deuteronomy 10:10 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים <the> former

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 13:9 בָרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֖ה at the first

Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

Deuteronomy 16:4 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

Deuteronomy 17:7 בָרִאשֹׁנָה֙ at the first

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:14 רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים ancestors

You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 24:4 הָרִאשׁ֣וֹן <the> former

then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Joshua 4:19 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> first

On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

Joshua 8:5 בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֔ה at the first [time]

Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

Joshua 8:6 בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה at the first [time]

They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,

Joshua 8:33 בָּרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ at the former [time]

All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 21:10 רִיאשֹׁנָֽה׃ first

to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them:

Judges 18:29 לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ to the former [time]

They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.

Judges 20:22 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ <the> first

But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.

Judges 20:32 כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה as at the former [time]

“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”

Judges 20:39 הָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ <the> first

the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”

Ruth 3:10 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> former

Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

1 Samuel 14:14 הָרִאשֹׁנָ֗ה <the> first

In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men in about half an acre of land.

1 Samuel 17:30 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ the former

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

2 Samuel 7:10 בָּרִאשׁוֹנָֽה׃ at the former [time]

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

2 Samuel 18:27 הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן the first [one]

The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”

2 Samuel 19:20 רִאשׁוֹן֙ first

For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 19:43 רִאשׁ֛וֹן first

“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:18 בָרִֽאשֹׁנָה֙ at the former [time]

Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.

2 Samuel 21:9 בָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים in the first

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

1 Kings 13:6 כְּבָרִֽאשֹׁנָֽה׃ as at the former [time]

Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.

1 Kings 17:13 בָרִאשֹׁנָה֙ at <the> first

“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,

1 Kings 18:25 רִאשֹׁנָ֔ה first

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

1 Kings 20:9 בָרִֽאשֹׁנָה֙ at the first

So Ahab answered the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to Ben-hadad.

1 Kings 20:17 בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה at the first

And the young officers of the district governors marched out first. Now Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, who reported to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”

2 Kings 1:14 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”

2 Kings 17:34 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֑ים <the> former

To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

2 Kings 17:40 הָֽרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> former

But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.

1 Chronicles 9:2 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים <the> first

Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

1 Chronicles 11:6 בָּרִ֣אשׁוֹנָ֔ה בָּרִאשׁוֹנָ֛ה at the first

Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

1 Chronicles 12:15 הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

1 Chronicles 17:9 בָּרִאשׁוֹנָֽה׃ at the former [time]

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

1 Chronicles 18:17 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים [were] the first

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.

1 Chronicles 24:7 הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ <the> first

The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

1 Chronicles 25:9 הָרִאשׁ֛וֹן <the> first

The first lot, which was for Asaph, fell to Joseph, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all; the second to Gedaliah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;

1 Chronicles 27:2 הָרִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

Jashobeam son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division, which was assigned the first month. There were 24,000 men in his division.

1 Chronicles 27:3 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ <the> first

He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army commanders for the first month.

1 Chronicles 29:29 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer,

2 Chronicles 3:3 הָרִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ <the> former

The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

2 Chronicles 9:29 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

2 Chronicles 12:15 הָרִאשֹׁנִים֙ <the> former

Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.

2 Chronicles 16:11 הָרִאשׁוֹנִ֖ים <the> former

Now the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 17:3 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים <the> former

Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 20:34 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

As for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:1 הָרִאשֹׁנִים֙ the former [sons]

Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 25:26 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

As for the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

2 Chronicles 26:22 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

As for the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from beginning to end, they are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

2 Chronicles 28:26 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz and all his ways, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:3 הָרִאשׁוֹנָ֨ה הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> first

In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:17 הָרִאשׁוֹן֮ הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 35:1 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ <the> first

Then Josiah kept the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 35:27 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> former

his acts from beginning to end—they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

Ezra 3:12 הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ <the> first

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

Ezra 6:19 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ the first

On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.

Ezra 7:9 הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

He had begun the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was upon him.

Ezra 8:31 הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

Ezra 9:2 רִאשׁוֹנָֽה׃ ס first

Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”

Ezra 10:17 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ פ <the> first

and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

Nehemiah 5:15 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֨ים <the> former

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.

Nehemiah 7:5 בָּרִאשׁוֹנָ֔ה at the first

Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:

Nehemiah 8:18 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> first

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

Esther 1:14 רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה foremost

His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.

Esther 3:7 הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ <the> first

In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

Esther 3:12 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> first

On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.

Job 8:8 רִישׁ֑וֹן former

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

Job 15:7 הֲרִאישׁ֣וֹן ¿ first

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Psalm 79:8 רִאשֹׁ֫נִ֥ים former

Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

Psalm 89:49 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֥ים׀ <the> former

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

Proverbs 18:17 הָרִאשׁ֣וֹן the first

The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

Proverbs 20:21 בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה at <the> first

An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.

Ecclesiastes 1:11 לָרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים of the former [things]

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים <the> former

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

Isaiah 1:26 כְּבָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה as at the former [time]

I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

Isaiah 9:1 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> former

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

Isaiah 41:4 רִאשׁ֔וֹן [am] first

Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”

Isaiah 41:22 הָרִאשֹׁנ֣וֹת׀ the former [things]

“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

Isaiah 41:27 רִאשׁ֥וֹן a first [one]

I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

Isaiah 42:9 הָרִֽאשֹׁנ֖וֹת the former [things]

Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

Isaiah 43:9 וְרִֽאשֹׁנ֖וֹת and former [things]

All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

Isaiah 43:18 רִֽאשֹׁנ֑וֹת former [things]

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

Isaiah 43:27 הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן <the> first

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

Isaiah 44:6 רִאשׁוֹן֙ [am] first

Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.

Isaiah 46:9 רִאשֹׁנ֖וֹת former [things]

Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.

Isaiah 48:3 הָרִֽאשֹׁנוֹת֙ the former [things]

I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

Isaiah 48:12 רִאשׁ֔וֹן [am] first

Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.

Isaiah 52:4 בָרִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה at the former [time]

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

Isaiah 60:9 בָּרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה [will be] at the first [place]

Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.

Isaiah 61:4 רִֽאשֹׁנִ֖ים former

They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isaiah 65:7 רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה first

both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

Isaiah 65:16 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת <the> former

Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.

Isaiah 65:17 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת the former [things]

For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

Jeremiah 7:12 בָּרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֑ה at the former [time]

But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

Jeremiah 11:10 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֗ים <the> former

They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 16:18 רִֽאשׁוֹנָ֗ה first

And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Jeremiah 17:12 מֵֽרִאשׁ֑וֹן from first [time]

A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

Jeremiah 33:7 כְּבָרִֽאשֹׁנָֽה׃ as at the former [time]

I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.

Jeremiah 33:11 כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָ֖ה as at the former [time]

the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 34:5 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים <the> former

you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 36:28 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים הָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה <the> former

“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

Jeremiah 50:17 הָרִאשׁ֤וֹן the first [lion]

Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

Ezekiel 29:17 בָּֽרִאשׁ֖וֹן in the first [month]

In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30:20 בָּֽרִאשׁ֖וֹן in the first [month]

In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 40:21 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> first

Its three gate chambers on each side, its side pillars, and its portico all had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 45:18 בָּֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ in the first [month]

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:21 בָּ֠רִאשׁוֹן in the first [month]

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Daniel 8:21 הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ <the> first

The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel 10:4 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> first

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

Daniel 10:12 הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן <the> first

“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

Daniel 10:13 הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים <the> chief

However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

Daniel 11:13 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן the first

For the king of the North will raise another army, larger than the first, and after some years he will advance with a great army and many supplies.

Daniel 11:29 כָרִאשֹׁנָ֖ה as the former [time]

At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time will not be like the first.

Hosea 2:7 הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן <the> former

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’

Joel 2:23 בָּרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ in the first [month]

Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Micah 4:8 הָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה <the> former

And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion—the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”

Haggai 2:3 הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן <the> former

‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’

Haggai 2:9 הָ֣רִאשׁ֔וֹן the former

The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

Zechariah 1:4 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים <the> former

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Zechariah 6:2 הָרִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה <the> first

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

Zechariah 7:7 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֔ים <the> former

Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

Zechariah 7:12 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֑ים <the> former

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

Zechariah 8:11 הָרִֽאשֹׁנִים֙ <the> former

But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Zechariah 12:7 בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה at the first

The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

Zechariah 14:10 הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ <the> first

All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.