Legacy Standard Bible

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 3 versesrendered “choicest” · Show all renderings

  • 1 Sam 2:29Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded in My habitation, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’
  • 1 Sam 15:21But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal.”
  • Ezek 20:40For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh, “there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.