denotes, primarily, "an offering of firstfruits" (akin to aparchomai, "to make a beginning;" in sacrifices, "to offer firstfruits"). "Though the English word is plural in each of its occurrences save Romans 11:16 , the Greek word is always singular. Two Hebrew words are thus translated, one meaning the "chief" or "principal part," e.g., Numbers 18:12; Proverbs 3:9; the other, "the earliest ripe of the crop or of the tree," e.g., Exodus 23:16; Nehemiah 10:35; they are found together, e.g., in Exodus 23:19 , "the first of the firstfruits."
Romans 8:231—Corinthians 15:20,23Romans 16:51—Corinthians 16:152—Thessalonians 2:13 James 1:18Revelation 14:4James 1:15 2—Thessalonians 2:13
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