Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1067
בְּכִירָה
bekirahbek-ee-raw'
firstborn
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉkîyrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1067is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1067
the eldest daughter
The King James renders it: firstborn.
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
bekirah is rendered "firstborn". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:31One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Genesis 19:31הַבְּכִירָ֛ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the firstborn6
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- הַבְּכִירָה֙4
- הַבְּכִירָ֛ה1
- הַבְּכִירָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular6HTd/Ncfsa
Genesis
five uses
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
- הַבְּכִירָ֛הhabekhirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the firstborn
So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
- הַבְּכִירָה֙habekhirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the firstborn
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
- הַבְּכִירָה֙habekhirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the firstborn
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
- הַבְּכִירָה֙habekhirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the firstborn
Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
- הַבְּכִירָֽה׃habekhirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the firstborn
1 Samuel
one use
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
- הַבְּכִירָה֙habekhirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the firstborn
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.