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first

Concordance for “first”

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:5

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Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 1:5 · retained source text

And God called the light, Day, and the darknesse he called Night: and the euening and the morning were the first day.

1611 marginal noteHebr. and the euening was, and the morning was &c.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 2:11 · retained source text

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where there is gold.

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 24.29.

Genesis 8:5
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 8:5 · retained source text

And the waters decreased continually vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, on the first day of the moneth, were the tops of the mountaines seene.

1611 marginal noteHebr. were in going and decreasing.

Genesis 8:13
¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
3 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 8:13 · retained source text

¶ And it came to passe in the sixe hundredth and one yeere, in the first moneth, the first day of the moneth, the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remooued the couering of the Arke, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was drie.

Genesis 13:4
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 13:4 · retained source text

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteChap. 12.7.

Genesis 25:25
And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 25:25 · retained source text

And the first came out red, all ouer like an hairy garment: and they called his name, Esau.

Genesis 26:1
AND there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 26:1 · retained source text

¶ And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the dayes of Abraham. And Isaac went vnto Abimelech King of the Philistims, vnto Gerar.

Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 28:19 · retained source text

And hee called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that citie was called Luz, at the first.

1611 marginal noteThat is, the house of God.

Genesis 38:28
And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 38:28 · retained source text

And it came to passe when shee trauailed, that the one put out his hand, and the midwife tooke and bound vpon his hand a skarlet threed, saying, This came out first.

Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 41:20 · retained source text

And the leane, & the ill fauoured kine, did eate vp the first seuen fat kine.

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Before anything else in time, proceeding, place, or progression.

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