The word(s) "first" appears 43 time(s) in 43 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(31) And I am commanded that I shall be the first of those who submit.

(32) And they shall say to their skins: Why have you borne witness against us? They shall say: Allah Who makes everything speak has made us speak, and He created you at first, and to Him you shall be brought back.

(33) There is naught but our first death and we shall not be raised again.

(34) They shall not taste therein death except the first death, and He will save them from the punishment of the hell,

(35) Say: I am not the first of the apostles, and I do not know what will be done with me or with you: I do not follow anything but that which is revealed to me, and I am nothing but a plain warner.

(36) Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation.

(37) A numerous company from among the first,

(38) A numerous company from among the first,

(39) Say: The first and the last,

(40) And certainly you know the first growth, why do you not then mind?