בְּכִירָה
bᵉkîyrâh · H1067 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Person
Meanings
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firstborn, older
The oldest of two siblings
ExamplesGenesis 19:31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to have relations with us according to the custom of all the earth.
Genesis 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.
Genesis 19:34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept last night with my father; let’s make him drink wine tonight too, then you go in and sleep with him, so that we may keep our family alive through our father.”
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
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- אָמַרto say 2
- יָלַדto bear 1
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
- שֵׁםname 1
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
- πρεσβύτερος presbýteros · G4245 · older, of ancient times
- Greek πρεσβύτερος captures the comparative age sense inherent in בְּכִירָה (firstborn as 'older') in contexts where birth order establishes seniority, though πρεσβύτερος has broader semantic range including institutional elder roles absent from the Hebrew term's specifically birth-order denotation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Old002001001041
- The word denotes the elder or firstborn daughter, distinguished by her seniority in age from her younger sister, as Lot's elder daughter speaks of their father being 'old' in Genesis 19:31, fitting this domain's sense of relative age or seniority.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1067. bekirah בְּכִירָה noun feminine first-born, always of women Gen 19:31; Genesis…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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