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# בִּכְרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1075

**Bichri** — used 8 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

Bichri [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1075/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּכְרִי: n.pr.m. adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1075/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (youthful)— a Benjamite 2 S 20:1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 21, 22; only in phr. שֶׁבַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִי. perhaps adj.gent. pl. c. art. הַבִּכְרִים 2 S 20:14 the Bichrites (i.e. family of Shebaʿ), MT הַבֵּרִים; cf. 𝔊 ἐν Χαρρει = (ב)כרי; so Klo Dr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Bicri (8).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 20:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.13/#tree)

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הֹגָ֖ה מִן־הַֽמְסִלָּ֑ה עָבַ֤ר כָּל־אִישׁ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י יוֹאָ֔ב לִרְדֹּ֕ף אַחֲרֵ֖י שֶׁ֥בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* when he.had.removed.\[him\] from the highway he.passed.on every person after Joab to pursue after Sheba the.son of.Bicri

*JPS 1917:* When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

[2 Samuel 20:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.2/#tree)

וַיַּ֜עַל כָּל־אִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אַחֲרֵ֖י שֶׁ֣בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִ֑י וְאִ֤ישׁ יְהוּדָה֙ דָּבְק֣וּ בְמַלְכָּ֔ם מִן־הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן וְעַד־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up every (the).man of.Israel from after David after Sheba the.son of.Bicri and the.man of.Judah they.clung to king their from the Jordan and to Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1075.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1075/): 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).