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title: בִּכּוּרִים — first-fruits · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּכּוּרִים (1061), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: first-fruits. BDB 1906: n.m. first-fruits. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּכּוּרִים

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«בִּכּוּרִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **first-fruits** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 1061 · **BDB:** בִּכּוּרִים

### Glosses

the.first-fruits (5); \[the\].first-fruits (3); first-fruits (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

first-fruits [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1061/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. first-fruits [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1061/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. first-fruits—Lv 2:14; 23:17; Nu 28:26 (P) 2 K 4:42; Na 3:12; Ne 13:31; בִּכֻּרִים Lv 23:20 (P); cstr. בִּכּוּרֵי Ex 23:16, 19 (E) 34:22, 26 (J) Nu 13:20 (E) 18:13 (P) Ne 10:36(×2) Ez 44:30; sf. בִּכּוּרֶיךָ Lv 2:14;—the first of grain and fruit that ripened and was gathered and offered to god according to the ritual; לֶחֶם הַבִּכּוּרִים bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost Lv 23:20; יום הבכורים day of the first-fruits (Pentecost) Nu 28:26.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּכּוּרִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1061/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 3:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.12/)

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כָּ֨ל־מִבְצָרַ֔יִךְ תְּאֵנִ֖ים עִם־בִּכּוּרִ֑ים אִם־יִנּ֕וֹעוּ וְנָפְל֖וּ עַל־פִּ֥י אוֹכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* all fortifications your \[are\].fig.trees with first-fruits if they.will.be.shaken and they.will.fall on \[the\].mouth of.\[one.who\].eats

*JPS 1917:* All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

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[Exodus 23:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.19/)

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רֵאשִׁ֗ית בִּכּוּרֵי֙ אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ תָּבִ֕יא בֵּ֖ית יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לֹֽא־תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל גְּדִ֖י בַּחֲלֵ֥ב אִמּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.first of.the.first-fruits your.ground your you.will.bring the.house of.Yahweh God your not you.must.boil a.kid in the.milk its.mother his

*JPS 1917:* The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

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