23 occurrences

'First' in the Bible

And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.

Verse ConceptsCommander

Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three.

Verse ConceptsThree Men

He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirty

It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west.

Verse ConceptseastMonth 1Peoples Who Fled

For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodCarrying Holy ThingsNot Enquiring Of God

And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song.

Then on that day David first made the giving of praise to the Lord the work of Asaph and his brothers.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfSongsanniversary

And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,

Verse ConceptsBeginningGod, The ProviderMetaphorical Planting

The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.

And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.

The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first.

The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth

The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.

Now the first name to come out was that of Jehoiarib; the second Jedaiah,

The twenty-first Jachin, the twenty-second Gamul,

Now of the group of Asaph, the first name to come out was Joseph; the second Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve?

The twenty-first Hothir, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

Over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

He was of the sons of Perez, and the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.

Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;

Verse ConceptsBooks, Not PreservedSeersWritingaccomplishments

Bible Theasaurus

Commencement (24 instances)
Foremost (17 instances)
Initiative (18 instances)
Leading (178 instances)
Maiden (40 instances)
Offset (3 instances)
Outset (2 instances)
Start (93 instances)

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