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title: בֶּכֶר — Becher · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּכֶר (1071), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Becher. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּכֶר

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«בֶּכֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Becher** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 1071 · **BDB:** בֶּ֫כֶר

### Glosses

Beker (3); of.Beker (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Becher [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1071/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1071/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (young camel, Arabic بَكْرٌ, Assyrian bakru Asrb.Annals ix. 65)— son of Ephraim Nu. 26:35 = בֶּרֶד 1 Ch 7:20. son of Benjamin Gn 46:21; 1 Ch 7:6, 8 (בָּ֑כֶר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֶּכֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1071/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 7:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.6/)

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בִּנְיָמִ֗ן בֶּ֧לַע וָבֶ֛כֶר וִידִֽיעֲאֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* Benjamin \[were\].Bela and Beker and Jediael three

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

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[Genesis 46:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.21/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֗ן בֶּ֤לַע וָבֶ֙כֶר֙ וְאַשְׁבֵּ֔ל גֵּרָ֥א וְנַעֲמָ֖ן אֵחִ֣י וָרֹ֑אשׁ מֻפִּ֥ים וְחֻפִּ֖ים וָאָֽרְדְּ׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Benjamin Bela and Beker and Ashbel Gera and Naaman Ehi and Rosh Muppim and Huppim and Ard

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

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