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πρωτοτόκια

prōtotókia · G4415 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. birthright, rights of being the firstborn

    Rights associated with being the firstborn

    Examples

    Hebrews 12:16 that there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
בְּכוֹרָה bᵉkôwrâh · H1062 · right of firstborn
Greek πρωτοτόκια (primogeniture) directly translates Hebrew בְּכוֹרָה (birthright), both denoting the legal rights and privileges of the firstborn son, particularly the inheritance priority described in passages like Genesis 25:31-34 and Hebrews 12:16.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Birthright, rights of being the firstborn10.44
The noun names the legal privileges belonging to the firstborn son. Hebrews' warning about Esau uses this term: “that there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal” (Hebrews 12:16).
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πρῶτος prōtos · G4413 · first, foremost · 97×πρῶτον prōton · G4412 · for the first time · 59×πρωτότοκος prōtótokos · G4416 · firstborn, existing first, existing before · 8×πρωτοκλισία prōtoklisía · G4411 · place of honor, seat of honor, best seat · 5×πρωτοκαθεδρία prōtokathedría · G4410 · place of honor, seat of honor, best seat · 4×πρωτεύω prōteúō · G4409 · to be the first, to have superior status · 1×πρωτοστάτης prōtostátēs · G4414 · leader, ringleader · 1×πρωτοτόκιαprōtotókia · G4415
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πρωτοτοκιων, τά (πρωτότοκος), in the Sept. also πρωτοτοκεια (others, πρωτοτοκεια (cf.…
πρωτοτοκιων, τά (πρωτότοκος), in the Sept. also πρωτοτοκεια (others, πρωτοτοκεια (cf. Chandler § 99), πρωτοτόκια, manuscript Venet., Aq.), for בְּכורָה, primogeniture, the right of the firstborn (in classical Greek ἡ πρεσβεία, and τό πρεσβεῖον): Heb 12:16. (Philo repeats the word after the Sept. in his alleg. legg. 3, 69; sacrif. Abel. § 5. Occasionally also in Byzantine writings.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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