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# בְּכוֹרַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1064

**Bechorath** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bechorath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1064/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּכוֹרַת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1064/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (first-born) Benjamite 1 S 9:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 9:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי־אִ֣ישׁ מִבִּנְיָמִ֗יןוּ֠שְׁמוֹ קִ֣ישׁ בֶּן־אֲבִיאֵ֞ל בֶּן־צְר֧וֹר בֶּן־בְּכוֹרַ֛ת בֶּן־אֲפִ֖יחַ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ יְמִינִ֑י גִּבּ֖וֹר חָֽיִל׃

*Word for word:* and he.was a.man from Benjamin and name his \[was\].Kish the.son of.Abiel the.son of.Zeror the.son of.Becorath the.son of.Aphiah a.son of.a.man a.Jaminite a.mighty.\[man\] of.wealth

*JPS 1917:* Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1064.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1064/): 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).