Hebrew verb · H1069
בָּכַר
bakarbaw-kar'
to be/bear firstborn
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâkar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1069is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1069
to give the birthright
The King James renders it: make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
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
bakar is rendered "to be/bear firstborn". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 27:26But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
Leviticus 27:26יְבֻכַּ֤ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it will be born a firstling1
- it will bear early fruit1
- like a bearing a first child1
- to treat as firstborn1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- יְבַכֵּ֔ר1
- יְבֻכַּ֤ר1
- כְּמַבְכִּירָ֔ה1
- לְבַכֵּר֙1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVPi3ms
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singular1HR/Vhrfsa
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
Leviticus
one use
But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
- יְבֻכַּ֤רyevukarverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be born a firstling
Deuteronomy
one use
when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
- לְבַכֵּר֙levakerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to treat as firstborn
Jeremiah
one use
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
- כְּמַבְכִּירָ֔הkemavkirahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: like a bearing a first child
Ezekiel
one use
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- יְבַכֵּ֔רyevakerverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will bear early fruit
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.