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title: בִּכְרִי — Bichri · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּכְרִי (1075), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Bichri. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּכְרִי

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«בִּכְרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bichri** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 1075 · **BDB:** בִּכְרִי

### Glosses

of.Bicri (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bichri [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1075/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1075/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (youthful)— a Benjamite 2 S 20:1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 21, 22; only in phr. שֶׁבַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִי. perhaps adj.gent. pl. c. art. הַבִּכְרִים 2 S 20:14 the Bichrites (i.e. family of Shebaʿ), MT הַבֵּרִים; cf. 𝔊 ἐν Χαρρει = (ב)כרי; so Klo Dr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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 «בִּכְרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1075/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 20:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.13/)

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כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הֹגָ֖ה מִן־הַֽמְסִלָּ֑ה עָבַ֤ר כָּל־אִישׁ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י יוֹאָ֔ב לִרְדֹּ֕ף אַחֲרֵ֖י שֶׁ֥בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* when he.had.removed.\[him\] from the highway he.passed.on every person after Joab to pursue after Sheba the.son of.Bicri

*JPS 1917:* When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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[2 Samuel 20:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.2/)

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וַיַּ֜עַל כָּל־אִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אַחֲרֵ֖י שֶׁ֣בַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִ֑י וְאִ֤ישׁ יְהוּדָה֙ דָּבְק֣וּ בְמַלְכָּ֔ם מִן־הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן וְעַד־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up every (the).man of.Israel from after David after Sheba the.son of.Bicri and the.man of.Judah they.clung to king their from the Jordan and to Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

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