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# בְּכֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1062

**right of first-born** — used 10 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

right of first-born [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1062/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּכֹרָה: n.f. right of first-born [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1062/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. right of first-born Gn 25:32, 34 (J) Dt 21:17; 1 Ch 5:1, 2; sf. בְּכֹרָתִי Gn 27:36 (JE); בְּכֹרָתְךָ Gn 25:31 (J); בְּכֹרָתוֹ Gn 25:33; 43:33 (J) 1 Ch 5:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: birthright (7); \[is\] a birthright (1); the birthright (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.31/#tree)

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֑ב מִכְרָ֥ה כַיּ֛וֹם אֶת־בְּכֹֽרָתְךָ֖ לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Jacob sell as the day (et) birthright your to me

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob said: 'Sell me first thy birthright.'

[Genesis 25:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.32/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר עֵשָׂ֔ו הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י הוֹלֵ֖ךְ לָמ֑וּת וְלָמָּה־זֶּ֥ה לִ֖י בְּכֹרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Esau here! I \[am\].going to die and for what? this to me \[is\].a.birthright

*JPS 1917:* And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1062.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1062/): 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).