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FIRST DAY

Hebrew:

echad one

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.”

Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.”

Greek:

mia day one

Matthew 28:1 “In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulture.”

Mark 16:2 “And very early in the morning on the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.”

Luke 24:1 “Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.”

John 20:1 “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher.”

John 20:19 “Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.”

Acts 20:7 “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow: and continue his speech until midnight.”

I Corinthians 16: 2 “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

 

FIRST/FOREMOST

protos foremost, first

Matthew 22:38 “This is the first and great commandment.”

Mark 12:28 “And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?”

I Corinthians 15:45, 47 “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”

Ephesians 6:2 “Honor thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;”

I Timothy 2:13 “For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.”

Hebrews 8:7 “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.”

Hebrews 9:8 “The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:”

Hebrews 9:15 “And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.”

Revelation 1:11 “Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.”

Revelation 20:5-6 “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.  This is the first resurrection.”

Revelation 21:1 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”

Revelation 21:19 “And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.  The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;”

 

FIRST BORN/BEGOTTEN

Hebrew:

bekor first born, firstly

Exodus 12:5 “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or goats:”

Exodus 13:2 “Sanctify unto meal the first born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.”

Exodus 13:13 “And every firstling (peter) of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck; and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.”

Greek:

prototokos first born

Hebrew 1:6 “And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.”

Revelation 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.  Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.”

Luke 2:7 “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”

Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Colossians 1:15 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.”

Colossians 1:18 “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.”

Hebrews 12:23 “To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.”

 

FIRST FRUIT

Hebrew:

bikkur first or earliest fruit

Exodus 23:16 “And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labors, which thou has sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field”

Proverbs 3:9 “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase.”

Greek:

aparche first fruits

Romans 8:23 “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

Romans 11:16 “For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”

Romans 16:5 “Likewise greet the church that is in their house.  Salute my well beloved Epaenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ.”

I Corinthians 15:20 “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.”

I Corinthians 15:23 “But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”

James 1:18 “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”

Revelation 14:4 “These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.  These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.  These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.”

 

FIRST PRINCIPLE/ESTATE

arche beginning, principle point, principality

Hebrews 5:12 “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.”

Jude 6 “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”

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