The word(s) "first" appears 42 time(s) in 40 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(31) Say (O Muhammad): If the Beneficent One hath a son, then, I shall be first among the worshippers. (But there is no son).

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

(33) They taste not death therein, save the first death. And He hath saved them from the doom of hell,

(34) Were We then worn out by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.

(35) (first) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand?

(36) And verily ye know the first creation. Why, then, do ye not reflect?

(37) He is the first and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things.

(38) He it is Who hath caused those of the People of the Scripture who disbelieved to go forth from their homes unto the first exile. Ye deemed not that they would go forth, while they deemed that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place whereof they recked not, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O ye who have eyes!

(39) On the day when the first trump resoundeth.

(40) (Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state