Beginning
רִאשָׁהStrong’s H7221rishah (ri-shah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rishah is the Hebrew word usually translated “more than beginnings your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”
Meaning
- Beginning time, early time
How it's translated
- more than beginnings your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רִאשָׁה rishah · beginning
beginning time, early time
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beginning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEGIN'NING, participle present
tense First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.
All definitions and other forms of “beginning”
BEGIN'NING, noun
The first cause; origin.
- That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being.“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1
- The rudiments, first ground or materials.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.