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# רִאשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7221

**beginning-time** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

beginning-time [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7221/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִאשָׁה: n.f. beginning-time, early time [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7221/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. beginning-time, early time;—pl. sf. רִאשֹׁתֵיכֶם Ez 36:11 (cf. ראֹשׁ 4 b).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: than (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 36:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.11/#tree)

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם אָדָ֥ם וּבְהֵמָ֖ה וְרָב֣וּ וּפָר֑וּ וְהוֹשַׁבְתִּ֨י אֶתְכֶ֜ם כְּקַדְמֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙ מֵרִאשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.multiply on you human\[s\] and animal\[s\] and they.will.increase and they.will.be.fruitful and I.will.cause.to.be.inhabited you like your.former state(s) and I.will.do.good more than your.beginnings and you.will.know (dm).that I \[am\].Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* and I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7221.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7221/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).