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# בָּכַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1069

**give the birthright** — used 4 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

give the birthright [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1069/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּכַר: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1069/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (NH בְּכֵּר, Aramaic בַּכֵּר, ܒܰܟܰܪ; cf. Arabic بَكَرَ rise early, do anything early; بِكْرٌ, virgin, woman having her first child; Ethiopic በኵር primogenitus; Assyrian bukru, first-born, Dl§ 65, 5)— Impf. יְבַכֵּר Ez 47:12; Inf. לְבַכֵּר Dt 21:16;— bear early, new fruit Ez 47:12. make or constitute as first-born Dt 21:16 (den. of בכור). Impf. יְבֻכַּר Lv 27:26 born or made a firstling. Pt. f. מַבְכִּירָה Je 4:31 one bearing her first child.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: a \[woman\] bearing a first child (1); it will be belong as a firstling (1); it will bear first-fruits (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 27:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.26/#tree)

אַךְ־בְּכ֞וֹר אֲשֶׁר־יְבֻכַּ֤ר לַֽיהוָה֙ בִּבְהֵמָ֔ה לֹֽא־יַקְדִּ֥ישׁ אִ֖ישׁ אֹת֑וֹ אִם־שׁ֣וֹר אִם־שֶׂ֔ה לַֽיהוָ֖ה הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless a.firstborn which it.will.be.belong.as.a.firstling to Yahweh among livestock not he.will.set.apart.as.holy anyone it whether an.ox or a.sheep \[belongs\].to Yahweh it

*JPS 1917:* Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.

[Jeremiah 4:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.31/#tree)

כִּי֩ ק֨וֹל כְּחוֹלָ֜ה שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי צָרָה֙ כְּמַבְכִּירָ֔ה ק֧וֹל בַּת־צִיּ֛וֹן תִּתְיַפֵּ֖חַ תְּפָרֵ֣שׂ כַּפֶּ֑יהָ אֽוֹי־נָ֣א לִ֔י כִּֽי־עָיְפָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י לְהֹרְגִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) a.sound like a.sick.\[woman\] I.have.heard distress like a.\[woman\].bearing.a.first.child the.sound of.the.daughter of.Zion she.is.gasping.for.breath she.is.spreading.out palms her woe! please to me (dm) it.is.weary self my to murderers

*JPS 1917:* For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands: 'Woe is me, now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1069.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1069/): 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).