רֵאשִׁית
reshith
H7225 · Hebrew / Aramaic
(912a); from 7218; beginning, chief:--
LSB renderings
beginning(18), choice(2), choicest(3), finest(1), first(20), first fruits(6), foremost(1), go back(2).
Occurs in 18 versesrendered “beginning” · Show all renderings
- Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Gen 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Gen 49:3“Reuben, you are my firstborn;My might and the beginning of my vigor,Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in strength.
- Deut 11:12a land for which Yahweh your God cares; the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.
- Job 8:7“Though your beginning was insignificant,Yet your end will increase greatly.
- Job 42:12And Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Psalm 111:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom;Good insight belongs to all those who do His commandments;His praise stands forever.
- Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge;Ignorant fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Prov 4:7“The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom;And with all your acquiring, acquire understanding.
- Prov 8:22“Yahweh possessed me at the beginning of His way,Before His deeds of old.
- Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like letting out water,So abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
- Eccl 7:8Better is the end of a matter than its beginning;Better is patience of spirit than haughtiness of spirit.
- Isa 46:10Declaring the end from the beginning,And from ancient times things which have not been done,Saying, ‘My counsel will be established,And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’,
- Jer 26:1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh, saying,
- Jer 27:1In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying—
- Jer 28:1Now it happened in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,
- Jer 49:34That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
- Mic 1:13Harness the chariot to the team of horses,O inhabitant of Lachish—She was the beginning of sinTo the daughter of Zion—Because in you were foundThe transgressions of Israel.
