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בְּכוֹר
bĕkôr
first-born
Strong's H1060 Noun Hebrew TWOT 244a Family
בְּכוֹר (bĕkôr ) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning first-born . It appears
118 times
in 20 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H1060).
Also rendered
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 244a) Range of meaning (TWOT 244a) first-born; men and women; animals; figurative; chief; eldest, firstborn
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's בְּכוֹר noun, masculine : first-born
1. men and women2. animals3. figurativeStrong's H1060 בְּכוֹר : first-born; hence, chiefKJV: eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 244: בָּכַר bākar — bear early, new fruit, make, constitute as first-born; born, made a firstling; give the birthright; make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child
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Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Lemma data from STEPBible , Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Occurrence data from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible tagging.
Scripture links use the KJ3 Literal Translation.