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# בִּכּוּרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1061

**first-fruits** — used 17 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-fruits [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1061/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּכּוּרִים: n.m. first-fruits [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1061/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. first-fruits—Lv 2:14; 23:17; Nu 28:26 (P) 2 K 4:42; Na 3:12; Ne 13:31; בִּכֻּרִים Lv 23:20 (P); cstr. בִּכּוּרֵי Ex 23:16, 19 (E) 34:22, 26 (J) Nu 13:20 (E) 18:13 (P) Ne 10:36(×2) Ez 44:30; sf. בִּכּוּרֶיךָ Lv 2:14;—the first of grain and fruit that ripened and was gathered and offered to god according to the ritual; לֶחֶם הַבִּכּוּרִים bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost Lv 23:20; יום הבכורים day of the first-fruits (Pentecost) Nu 28:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the first-fruits (5); \[the\] first-fruits (3); first-fruits (3).

## In the verses

[Nahum 3:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.12/#tree)

כָּ֨ל־מִבְצָרַ֔יִךְ תְּאֵנִ֖ים עִם־בִּכּוּרִ֑ים אִם־יִנּ֕וֹעוּ וְנָפְל֖וּ עַל־פִּ֥י אוֹכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* all fortifications your \[are\].fig.trees with first-fruits if they.will.be.shaken and they.will.fall on \[the\].mouth of.\[one.who\].eats

*JPS 1917:* All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

[Exodus 23:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.19/#tree)

רֵאשִׁ֗ית בִּכּוּרֵי֙ אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ תָּבִ֕יא בֵּ֖ית יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לֹֽא־תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל גְּדִ֖י בַּחֲלֵ֥ב אִמּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.first of.the.first-fruits your.ground your you.will.bring the.house of.Yahweh God your not you.must.boil a.kid in the.milk its.mother his

*JPS 1917:* The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1061.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1061/): 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).