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title: בְּכִירָה — first-born · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּכִירָה (1067), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: first-born. BDB 1906: n.f. first-born. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּכִירָה

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«בְּכִירָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **first-born** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 1067 · **BDB:** בְּכִירָה

### Glosses

firstborn (5); the.firstborn (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

first-born [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1067/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. first-born [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1067/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. first-born, always of women Gn 19:31, 33, 34, 37; 29:26 (JE) 1 S 14:49.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּכִירָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1067/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 19:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.37/)

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וַתֵּ֤לֶד הַבְּכִירָה֙ בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ מוֹאָ֑ב ה֥וּא אֲבִֽי־מוֹאָ֖ב עַד־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore the firstborn a.son and she.called name his Moab he \[is\].the.ancestor of.Moab until this day

*JPS 1917:* And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab — the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

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[Genesis 29:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.26/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָבָ֔ן לֹא־יֵעָשֶׂ֥ה כֵ֖ן בִּמְקוֹמֵ֑נוּ לָתֵ֥ת הַצְּעִירָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַבְּכִירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Laban not it.is.done thus in place our to give the young before the firstborn

*JPS 1917:* And Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.

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