רֵאשִׁית

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\ \ a. beginning of kingdom 1 Mos 10,10 (J), year 5 Mos 11,12, reign Jer 26,1; Jer 27,1; Jer 28,1; Jer 49,34= first phase, step, or element in course of events Es 46,10 (opposed to אַחֲרִית); of a thing (דָּבָר) Praed 7,8 (opposed to id.); of sin Mik 1,13, strife Ord 17,14, wisdom Sl 111,10, knowledge Ord 1,7 thy beginning Job 8,7 = thine early life so his beginning Job 42,12 (both opposed to אַחֲרִית), ׳ר before clause, ׳בָּרָא א ׳בְּר 1 Mos 1,1 in the beginning when god created (> absolute in the beginning God created); אֹנִי ׳ר 1 Mos 49,3 (poem) beginning (first product) of my manly vigour (|| בְּכֹרִי כֹּחִי so 5 Mos 21,17; Sl 78,51 (both || בְּכוֺת Sl 105,36 compare דֵּרְכֵי אֵל ׳ר Job 40,19 (of hippopotamus), דַּרְכּוֺ ׳ר Ord 8,22 (of wisdom);=first season (of a tree) Hos 9,10 גּוֺיִם׳ר 4 Mos 24,20 (JE), first, earliest, of nations.
\ \ b. first of fruits 2 Mos 23,19 (E), 2 Mos 34,26 (JE), 5 Mos 26,2; 5 Mos 26,10; Ezk 44,30.a, of harvest 3 Mos 23,10 (H), grain 5 Mos 18,4; 2 Kron 31,5 dough 4 Mos 15,20; 4 Mos 15,21 (P), Ezk 44,30b Neh 10,38, wool 5 Mos 18,4 of כָּלתְּֿבוּאָתֶ֑ךָ Ord 3,9 Israel is תְּבוּאָתֹה ׳ר Jer 2,3 (i.e. of ׳יs increase); ׳ר=first-fruits 3 Mos 2,12 (P), 4 Mos 18,12 (P), Neh 12,44 הָאָרֶץ ׳ר Ezk 48,14

2. first chief, Amos 6,1 גְּבוּרָתָם ׳ר Jer 49,35 (of bows); so apparently בְּנֵי עַמּוֺן ׳ר Dan 11,41, i.e. the principal part of them (Buhl Marti conjecture שְׁאֵרִית after ᵑ6); מַשְׁאוֺתֵיכֶם ׳ר Ezk 20,40, i.e. your chief oblations; שְׁמָנִים ׳ר Amos 6,6, i.e. choice oils; = choice part, of land 5 Mos 33,21, offering 1 Sam 2,29, הַחֵרֶם 1 Sam 15,21 absolute chief thing Ord 4,7 (of wisdom).