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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1067/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּכִירָה: n.f. first-born [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1067/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.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

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1067.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1067/): 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).