בְּכִירָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1067

first-born — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

first-born tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּכִירָה: n.f. first-born tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. first-born, always of women Gn 19:31, 33, 34, 37; 29:26 (JE) 1 S 14:49.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: firstborn (5); the firstborn (1).

In the verses

Genesis 19:37 · tree →

וַתֵּ֤לֶד הַבְּכִירָה֙ בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ מוֹאָ֑ב ה֥וּא אֲבִֽי־מוֹאָ֖ב עַד־הַיּֽוֹם׃

Word for word: and she.bore the firstborn a.son and she.called name his Moab he [is].the.ancestor of.Moab until this day

JPS 1917: And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab — the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Genesis 29:26 · tree →

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָבָ֔ן לֹא־יֵעָשֶׂ֥ה כֵ֖ן בִּמְקוֹמֵ֑נוּ לָתֵ֥ת הַצְּעִירָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַבְּכִירָֽה׃

Word for word: and he.said Laban not it.is.done thus in place our to give the young before the firstborn

JPS 1917: And Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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