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רֵאשִׁית — Deuteronomy 18:4 first produce/fleece given to priest

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SEMANTIC_USAGE_OCCURRENCEUSAGE_H7225_DEU_18_4

Competing interpretations

Economic classification is secondary because the text is about priestly dues rather than a commercial transaction.
Curation State
CURATED
Release Introduced
v44
Language
Hebrew
Lemma
H7225
Strong Id
H7225
Lemma Keys
[
    "H7225",
    "7225",
    "רֵאשִׁית"
]
Evidence Layers
[
    {
        "id": "BIBLICAL_HEBREW_GREEK",
        "role": "textual_corpus"
    }
]
Source Ids
[
    "SRC_OSHB_WLC",
    "SRC_KJV1769"
]
Source Reference
Deuteronomy 18:4
Date Range
{
    "label": "Biblical Hebrew textual tradition",
    "certainty": "textual witness date distinct from composition dating"
}
Original Language
Hebrew
Attested Form
רֵאשִׁית / וְרֵאשִׁית
Original Excerpt
רֵאשִׁית דְּגָנְךָ ... וְרֵאשִׁית גֵּז צֹאנְךָ
Translation
{
    "text": "the first of your grain ... and the first of the fleece of your sheep",
    "responsibility": "Berean Archive contextual rendering based on the public-domain biblical sense",
    "alignment_note": "Occurrence-level context; not a claim that every H7225 occurrence means firstfruits."
}
Semantic Domains
[
    {
        "id": "agricultural",
        "role": "primary",
        "classification": "documented fact",
        "rationale": "The objects are grain, wine/oil context, and sheep fleece."
    },
    {
        "id": "religious_cultic",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "documented fact",
        "rationale": "The produce/fleece is to be given to the priest in the surrounding priestly-due legislation."
    },
    {
        "id": "economic_commercial",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "reasonable inference",
        "rationale": "The occurrence concerns allocation of valuable agricultural produce, though the immediate frame is priestly obligation rather than market exchange."
    }
]
Evidence Strength
DIRECT_ATTESTATION
Context Summary
H7225 is used for the first portion of agricultural produce and fleece assigned to the priest, sharply differing from the temporal use in Genesis 1:1.
Evidence Boundary
The same lemma participates in materially different contexts; v44 summarizes those occurrence-level distributions rather than assigning H7225 one universal domain.
Scripture Reference
{
    "book": "DEU",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": "4",
    "edition": "oshb-wlc"
}