7223 - rishon

Strong's Concordance

Original word: רִאשׁוֹן
Transliteration: rishon
Definition (short): first
Definition (full): first, in place, time, rank

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from rosh
Definition: former, first, chief
NASB Translation: ancestors (3), before (4), beginning (2), chief (1), chiefs (1), earlier (4), earlier things (1), first (113), first one (2), first time (1), forefathers (1), foremost (1), former (25), former ones (4), former things (6), formerly (6), front (1), old (1), older (1), one in front (1), past (1), previous (1), previously (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or riishon {ree-shone'}; from ri'shah; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun) -- ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.

see HEBREW ri'shah

KJV: And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
NASB: Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.
KJV: Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
NASB: to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
KJV: And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
NASB: Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
KJV: And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
NASB: Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
KJV: And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
NASB: He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.