Bible word study

Reshith (Strong’s H7225): Meaning in the Bible

Reshith (רֵאשִׁית) is the Hebrew word numbered H7225 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit). In the King James Bible it is translated beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time).

• Original wordרֵאשִׁית
• Transliterationrêʼshîyth
• Pronunciationray-sheeth'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH7225
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as H7218;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Reshith appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Reshith (H7225) stands behind 50 English renderings in 48 verses across 19 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (6), Jeremiah (6), Proverbs (5).

How the King James Bible renders Reshith, by count

• beginning18 of 50 (36 percent)
• firstfruits10 of 50 (20 percent)
• first9 of 50 (18 percent)
• chief8 of 50 (16 percent)
• chiefest1 of 50 (2 percent)
• firstfruit1 of 50 (2 percent)

Three places to read Reshith

• Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
• 1 Samuel 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
• Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Reshith in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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