Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1062
בְּכוֹרָה
bekorahbek-o-raw'
birthright
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉkôwrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1062is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1062
the firstling of man or beast; abstractly primogeniture
The King James renders it: birthright, firstborn(-ling).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
bekorah is rendered "birthright". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:31“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
Genesis 25:31בְּכֹֽרָתְךָ֖
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's ten uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- birthright his2
- the birthright2
- a birthright1
- according to birthright his1
- and the birthright1
- birthright my1
- birthright your1
- to the birthright1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ ס2
- בְּכֹרָֽה׃1
- בְּכֹרָת֖וֹ1
- בְּכֹ֣רָת֔וֹ1
- בְּכֹרָתִ֣י1
- בְּכֹֽרָתְךָ֖1
- וְהַבְּכֹרָ֖ה1
- כִּבְכֹ֣רָת֔וֹ1
- לַבְּכֹרָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Genesis
six uses
“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
- בְּכֹֽרָתְךָ֖bekhoratekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: birthright your
“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
- בְּכֹרָֽה׃bekhorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a birthright
“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
- בְּכֹרָת֖וֹbekhoratonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: birthright his
Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ סhabekhorahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the birthright
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- בְּכֹרָתִ֣יbekhoratinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: birthright my
They were seated before Joseph in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.
- כִּבְכֹ֣רָת֔וֹkivkhoratopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: according to birthright his
Deuteronomy
one use
Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
- הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ סhabekhorahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the birthright
1 Chronicles
three uses
These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.
- בְּכֹ֣רָת֔וֹbekhoratonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: birthright his
- לַבְּכֹרָֽה׃labekhorahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the birthright
And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.
- וְהַבְּכֹרָ֖הvehabekhorahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the birthright
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.