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# בִּכּוּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1063

**first ripe fig** — used 4 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 ripe fig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1063/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּכּוּרָה: n.f. first ripe fig, early fig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1063/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. first ripe fig, early fig (regarded as a delicacy) (Löw391; cf. Arabic بَاكُورَة, Span. albacora, Moorish bokkôre) Mi 7:1; Ho 9:10; sf. בִּכּוּרָהּ = בִּכּוּרָתָהּ (read בִּכּוּרָה Di), Is 28:4; pl. בַּכֻּרוֹת Je 24:2. בַּכֻּרוֹת Je 24:2 prob. a diff. word, pl. abstr. = early ripeness, cf. Du.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an early fig (3); the early figs (1).

## In the verses

[Micah 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/#tree)

אַ֣לְלַי לִ֗י כִּ֤י הָיִ֙יתִי֙ כְּאָסְפֵּי־קַ֔יִץ כְּעֹלְלֹ֖ת בָּצִ֑יר אֵין־אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל לֶאֱכ֔וֹל בִּכּוּרָ֖ה אִוְּתָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* woe! to me (dm) I.have.become like gathering(s) of.summer.fruit like gleanings of.\[the\].grape.harvest there.\[is\].not a.cluster.of.grapes to eat an.early.fig it.craves appetite my

*JPS 1917:* Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth.

[Jeremiah 24:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.24.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.24.2/#tree)

הַדּ֣וּד אֶחָ֗ד תְּאֵנִים֙ טֹב֣וֹת מְאֹ֔ד כִּתְאֵנֵ֖י הַבַּכֻּר֑וֹת וְהַדּ֣וּד אֶחָ֗ד תְּאֵנִים֙ רָע֣וֹת מְאֹ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תֵֽאָכַ֖לְנָה מֵרֹֽעַ׃ס

*Word for word:* the basket one \[was\].figs good very like the.figs of the.early.figs and the basket one \[was\].figs bad very which not they.will.be.eaten from badness

*JPS 1917:* One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1063.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1063/): 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).