רִאשָׁה
riʼshâh · H7221 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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first, former
State in which a countable entity is the first or the previous in a range
ExamplesEzekiel 36:11 ‘I will multiply on you people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will populate you as you were previously, and treat you better than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶםyour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- תְּחִלָּה tᵉchillâh · H8462 · beginning
- Hebrew noun meaning 'beginning' or 'first,' derived from different root (חלל) but overlapping semantic range with רִאשָׁה
Contrasting words 2 words
- אַחֲרִית ʼachărîyth · H319 · farthest, last, surviving
- Standard lexical opposite denoting 'end' or 'latter part' contrasted with 'beginning'
- סוֹף çôwph · H5490 · end, rear, last
- Noun meaning 'end' or 'conclusion,' temporal opposite of 'beginning'
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀρχή archḗ · G746 · beginning, to begin
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew 'beginning' terminology; widely used in LXX to render Hebrew words for beginning/first
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The word means beginning, used in the promise to multiply and increase the people "as you were previously," i.e. in greater number than before (Ezekiel 36:11).
- Frequency002001003009
- The same promise that God will "treat you better than at the beginning" reflects a return to and surpassing of a former, recurring state (Ezekiel 36:11).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7221. rishah [רִאשָׁה] noun feminine beginning-time, early time; — plural suffix כֶם…
[רִאשָׁה] noun feminine beginning-time, early time; — plural suffix כֶם רִאשֹׁתֵי Eze 36:11 (compare ראֹשׁ 4b).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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