בָּכַר
bâkar · H1069 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to bear early fruit
Process by which a plant produces fruits early in a season; which are specially regarded and looked after, both because of taste and earliness
ExamplesEzekiel 47:12 “And by the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
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Process by which a woman gives birth to her first child; associated with anguish and pain (to bear (one's) first child)
ExamplesJeremiah 4:31 For I heard a voice cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child. The voice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying, “Ah, woe to me, for I faint before murderers.”
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to treat as firstborn
Action by which someone determines which offspring (of either humans or animals) is to be considered the firstborn and to be treated as such
ExamplesLeviticus 27:26 ‘However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’S.
Deuteronomy 21:16 then it shall be on the day that he wills what he owns as an inheritance to his sons, he is not allowed to treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn, at the expense of the son of the unloved, who actually is the firstborn son.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
- בin/on/with+ בְּהֵמָהanimal, livestock 1
- לto/for+ חֹדֶשׁmonth 1
- לto/for+ יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 1
- לto/for 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Stage002001001060
- The verb concerns the status of being firstborn, a designation tied to birth order and one's stage or rank within the family, as the law forbids treating a later-born son 'as the firstborn' in Deuteronomy 21:16, fitting this domain's sense of a stage or rank attained.
- Birth002002002003
- The verb also describes the act of bringing forth a first child, as Jeremiah likens Zion's anguish to 'a woman in labor... giving birth to her first child' in Jeremiah 4:31, fitting this domain's core sense of childbirth.
- Act002002002001
- The verb describes performing the act of designating or treating something as firstborn, a deliberate legal or ritual action, connecting it to this domain's sense of an act performed.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1069. bakar [בָּכַר] verb (Late Hebrew בְּכֵּר, Aramaic בַּכֵּר, ; compare Arabic rise…
[בָּכַר] verb (Late Hebrew בְּכֵּר, Aramaic בַּכֵּר, ; compare Arabic rise early, do anything early; , virgin, woman having her first child; Ethiopic primogenitus; Assyrian bukru, first-born, Dl§ 65, 5) —
Pi`el Imperfect יְבַכֵּר Eze 47:12; Infinitive לְבַכֵּר Deu 21:16; —
1 bear early, new fruit Eze 47:12.
2 make or constitute as first-born Deu 21:16 (denominative of בכיר).
Pu`al Imperfect יְבֻכַּר Lev 27:26 born or made a firstling.
Hiph`il Participle f. מַבְכִּירָה Jer 4:31 one bearing her first child.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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