former

Found 50 times in the King James Bible

H7223 Hebrew
G4387 Greek

English Definition

first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)

ע Hebrew (Old Testament)

Original Script

רִאשׁוֹן

Transliteration

riʼshôwn

Strong's Reference H7223

Ω Greek (New Testament)

Original Script

πρότερος

Transliteration

riʼshôwn

Strong's Reference G4387

"Former" translates different words in the original languages. In the Old Testament (Hebrew) it corresponds to H7223, while in the New Testament (Greek) it corresponds to G4387. Context determines which original word is being used.

Occurrences in Scripture

Genesis 40:13 Old Testament

after the former manner when thou wast

Numbers 21:26 Old Testament

fought against the former king of Moab,

Deuteronomy 24:4 Old Testament

Her former husband, which sent

Ruth 4:7 Old Testament

the manner in former time in Israel

1 Samuel 17:30 Old Testament

again after the former manner.

2 Kings 1:14 Old Testament

captains of the former fifties with their

2 Kings 17:34 Old Testament

do after the former manners: they fear

2 Kings 17:40 Old Testament

did after their former manner.

Nehemiah 5:15 Old Testament

But the former governors that had

Job 8:8 Old Testament

thee, of the former age, and prepare

Job 30:3 Old Testament

the wilderness in former time desolate and

Psalm 79:8 Old Testament

not against us former iniquities: let thy

Psalm 89:49 Old Testament

where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou

Ecclesiastes 1:11 Old Testament

no remembrance of former things; neither shall

Ecclesiastes 7:10 Old Testament

cause that the former days were better

Isaiah 41:22 Old Testament

them shew the former things, what they

Isaiah 42:9 Old Testament

Behold, the former things are come

Isaiah 43:9 Old Testament

and shew us former things? let them

Isaiah 43:18 Old Testament

ye not the former things, neither consider

Isaiah 46:9 Old Testament

Remember the former things of old:

Isaiah 48:3 Old Testament

have declared the former things from the

Isaiah 61:4 Old Testament

raise up the former desolations, and they

Isaiah 65:7 Old Testament

I measure their former work into their

Isaiah 65:16 Old Testament

truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,

Isaiah 65:17 Old Testament

earth: and the former shall not be

Jeremiah 5:24 Old Testament

rain, both the former and the latter,

Jeremiah 10:16 Old Testament

he is the former of all things;

Jeremiah 34:5 Old Testament

thy fathers, the former kings which were

Jeremiah 36:28 Old Testament

it all the former words that were

Jeremiah 51:19 Old Testament

he is the former of all things:

Ezekiel 16:55 Old Testament

return to their former estate, and Samaria

Ezekiel 16:55 Old Testament

return to their former estate, then thou

Ezekiel 16:55 Old Testament

return to your former estate.

Daniel 11:13 Old Testament

greater than the former, and shall certainly

Daniel 11:29 Old Testament

be as the former, or as the

Hosea 6:3 Old Testament

the latter and former rain unto the

Joel 2:23 Old Testament

given you the former rain moderately, and

Joel 2:23 Old Testament

the rain, the former rain, and the

Haggai 2:9 Old Testament

than of the former, saith the LORD

Zechariah 1:4 Old Testament

unto whom the former prophets have cried,

Zechariah 7:7 Old Testament

cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem

Zechariah 7:12 Old Testament

spirit by the former prophets: therefore came

Zechariah 8:11 Old Testament

as in the former days, saith the

Zechariah 14:8 Old Testament

them toward the former sea, and half

Malachi 3:4 Old Testament

and as in former years.

Acts 1:1 New Testament

The former treatise have I

Ephesians 4:22 New Testament

off concerning the former conversation the old

Hebrews 10:32 New Testament

to remembrance the former days, in which,

1 Peter 1:14 New Testament

according to the former lusts in your

Revelation 21:4 New Testament

pain: for the former things are passed

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