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Word Study · Strong's H1060 · Hebrew

בְּכוֹר

bekor

bek-ore'

Strong's 1890 spelling: bᵉkôwr

firstborn

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

firstborn; hence, chief

Rendered in the KJV as

eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).

  • 122
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 20 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 62
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 122 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 62

  • בְּכ֣וֹר17
  • בְּכ֥וֹר9
  • בְּכוֹר֙6
  • הַבְּכ֖וֹר6
  • בְּכֹר֖וֹ5
  • הַבְּכוֹר֙5
  • הַבְּכֽוֹר׃4
  • בְּכ֨וֹר3
  • הַבְּכ֣וֹר׀3
  • וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת3
  • בְּכוֹר֮2
  • בְּכ֜וֹר2

and 50 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 22

  • [the] firstborn of32
  • firstborn23
  • the firstborn23
  • firstborn his11
  • [the] firstborns of4
  • [was] the firstborn4
  • and [the] firstborns of3
  • firstborn of3
  • firstborn your3
  • from [the] firstborn of3
  • firstborn my2
  • [are] firstborn my1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 13

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)37
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular28
  • noun · masculine singular24
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular11
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 37
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 28
  • HNcmsa · 24
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 11
  • HR/Ncmsc · 5
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 4
  • HC/Ncfpc · 3
  • HNcmpc · 3
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 3
  • HNcfpc · 1
  • HR/Ncfpc · 1
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp · 1

All 122, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis16 occurrences
Exodus20 occurrences
Leviticus1 occurrence
Numbers25 occurrences
Deuteronomy11 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges1 occurrence
1 Samuel2 occurrences
2 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Kings1 occurrence
2 Kings1 occurrence
1 Chronicles25 occurrences
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms5 occurrences
Isaiah1 occurrence
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Micah1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).