: beginning 1) first, beginning, best, chief 1a) beginning 1b) first 1c) chief 1d) choice part Also means: re.shit (רֵאשִׁית ": best" H7225H)
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H7225 — רֵאשִׁית
re.shit · first: beginning · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 1:1 · בְּרֵאשִׁ֖יתIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 10:10 · רֵאשִׁ֤יתHis kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.Genesis 49:3 · וְרֵאשִׁ֣יתReuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.Exodus 23:19 · רֵאשִׁ֗יתBring 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.Exodus 34:26 · רֵאשִׁ֗יתBring 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.”Leviticus 2:12 · רֵאשִׁ֛יתYou may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma.Leviticus 23:10 · רֵאשִׁ֥ית“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.Numbers 15:20 · רֵאשִׁית֙From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.Numbers 15:21 · מֵרֵאשִׁית֙Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.Numbers 18:12 · רֵאשִׁיתָ֛םI give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.Numbers 24:20 · רֵאשִׁ֤יתThen Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”Deuteronomy 11:12 · מֵֽרֵשִׁית֙It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.Deuteronomy 18:4 · רֵאשִׁ֨ית · וְרֵאשִׁ֛יתYou are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.Deuteronomy 21:17 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתInstead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.Deuteronomy 26:2 · מֵרֵאשִׁ֣ית׀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,Deuteronomy 26:10 · רֵאשִׁית֙And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.Deuteronomy 33:21 · רֵאשִׁית֙He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”1 Samuel 2:29 · מֵרֵאשִׁ֛יתWhy then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’1 Samuel 15:21 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתThe troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”2 Chronicles 31:5 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתAs soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.Nehemiah 10:37 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתMoreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.Nehemiah 12:44 · לָרֵאשִׁ֣יתAnd on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the fields of the villages, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who were serving.Job 8:7 · רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.Job 40:19 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתHe is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.Job 42:12 · מֵרֵאשִׁת֑וֹSo the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.Psalm 78:51 · רֵאשִׁ֥יתHe struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.Psalm 105:36 · רֵ֝אשִׁ֗יתThen He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.Psalm 111:10 · רֵ֘אשִׁ֤יתThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!Proverbs 1:7 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.Proverbs 3:9 · וּ֝מֵרֵאשִׁ֗יתHonor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;Proverbs 4:7 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתWisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.Proverbs 8:22 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתThe LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.Proverbs 17:14 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתTo start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.Ecclesiastes 7:8 · מֵֽרֵאשִׁית֑וֹThe end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.Isaiah 46:10 · מֵֽרֵאשִׁית֙I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’Jeremiah 2:3 · רֵאשִׁ֖יתIsrael was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 26:1 · בְּרֵאשִׁ֗יתAt the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:Jeremiah 27:1 · בְּרֵאשִׁ֗יתAt the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.Jeremiah 28:1 · בְּרֵאשִׁית֙In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:Jeremiah 49:34 · בְּרֵאשִׁ֗יתThis is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.Jeremiah 49:35 · רֵאשִׁ֖יתThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.Daniel 11:41 · וְרֵאשִׁ֖יתHe will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.Hosea 9:10 · בְּרֵ֣אשִׁיתָ֔הּI found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.Amos 6:1 · רֵאשִׁ֣יתWoe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.Amos 6:6 · וְרֵאשִׁ֥יתYou drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.Micah 1:13 · רֵאשִׁ֨יתHarness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.