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Lexicon :: Strong's H1060 - bᵊḵôr

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בְּכוֹר
Transliteration
bᵊḵôr
Pronunciation
bek-ore'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 244a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: בכור.

Strong’s Definitions

בְּכוֹר bᵉkôwr, bek-ore'; from H1069; first-born; hence, chief:—eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x

The KJV translates Strong's H1060 in the following manner: firstborn (101x), firstling (10x), eldest (4x), firstborn (with H1121) (1x), eldest son (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x
The KJV translates Strong's H1060 in the following manner: firstborn (101x), firstling (10x), eldest (4x), firstborn (with H1121) (1x), eldest son (1x).

  1. firstborn, firstling

    1. of men and women

    2. of animals

    3. noun of relation (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּכוֹר bᵉkôwr, bek-ore'; from H1069; first-born; hence, chief:—eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).
STRONGS H1060: Abbreviations
בְּכוֺר 122 noun masculine first-born — Genesis 35:23 + 78 times; בְּכֹר Genesis 25:13 + 14 times; suffix בְּכֹּרִי Genesis 49:3 + 14 times; בְּכוֺרוֺ Genesis 38:6 + 3 times; plural construct בְּכוֺרֵי Nehemiah 10:37 + 2 times; בְּכוֺרֵיהֶם Psalm 136:10; plural feminine בְּכֹרוֺת Genesis 4:4; Nehemiah 10:37; בְּכֹרֹת Deuteronomy 12:6, 17; Deuteronomy 14:23; —
1. men and women:
a. individuals Genesis 25:13 + 69 times
b. collective Numbers 3:46, 50; Numbers 8:16; Numbers 18:15.
c. plural Nehemiah 10:37; Psalm 135:8; Psalm 136:10.
d. כל בכור Exodus 11:5; Exodus 12:12, 29; Exodus 13:2, 13, 15 (twice in verse); Exodus 22:28; Exodus 34:2; Numbers 3:12 (3 times in verse); Numbers 3:13, 40, 42, 43, 45; Numbers 8:17 (twice in verse); Numbers 8:18; Numbers 33:4; Psalm 78:51; Psalm 105:36.
2. animals:
a. individuals Leviticus 27:26; Numbers 18:17; Deuteronomy 15:19 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 33:17.
b. collective בכור בהמה Exodus 11:5; Exodus 12:29; Exodus 13:15; Numbers 3:41; Numbers 18:15; כל הבכור Deuteronomy 15:19.
c. plural בכרות Genesis 4:4; Deuteronomy 12:6, 17; Deuteronomy 14:23; Nehemiah 10:37.
3. figurative, noun of relation בכור מות first-born of death Job 18:13 (deadly disease); בְּכוֺרֵי דַלִּים first-born of the poor (the poorest) Isaiah 14:30; Israel is the first-born of Yahweh among the nations Exodus 4:22 compare Jeremiah 31:9; and the seed of David among dynasties Psalm 89:28.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:4; 4:4; 25:13; 25:13; 35:23; 38:6; 49:3

Exodus

4:22; 11:5; 11:5; 12:12; 12:29; 12:29; 13:2; 13:13; 13:15; 13:15; 22:28; 34:2

Leviticus

27:26

Numbers

3:12; 3:13; 3:40; 3:41; 3:42; 3:43; 3:45; 3:46; 3:50; 8:16; 8:17; 8:18; 18:15; 18:15; 18:17; 33:4

Deuteronomy

12:6; 12:6; 12:17; 12:17; 14:23; 14:23; 15:19; 15:19; 33:17

Nehemiah

10:37; 10:37; 10:37; 10:37

Job

18:13

Psalms

78:51; 89:28; 105:36; 135:8; 136:10; 136:10

Isaiah

14:30

Jeremiah

31:9

H1060

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Strong's Number H1060 matches the Hebrew בְּכוֹר (bᵊḵôr),
which occurs 118 times in 96 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:15 - Kana`an became the father of Tzidon (his firstborn), Het,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:21 - `Utz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemu'el the father of Aram,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:13 - These are the names of the sons of Yishma'el, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Yishma'el, Nevayot, then Kedar, Adbe'el, Mivsam,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Ya`akov said to his father, "I am Esav your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - Yitzchak his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esav."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - The sons of Le'ah: Re'uven (Ya`akov's firstborn), Shim`on, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:15 - These are the chiefs of the sons of Esav: the sons of Elifaz the firstborn of Esav: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Tzefo, chief Kenaz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:6 - Yehudah took a wife for `Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7 - `Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. The LORD killed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Yosef called the name of the firstborn Menashsheh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:33 - They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 - These are the names of the children of Yisra'el, who came into Mitzrayim, Ya`akov and his sons: Re'uven, Ya`akov's firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - Yisra'el stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Efrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Menashsheh was the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - Yosef said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - "Re'uven, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:22 - You shall tell Par`oh, 'Thus says the LORD, Yisra'el is my son, my firstborn,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:23 - and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:14 - These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Hanokh, and Pallu, Hetzron, and Karmi; these are the families of Re'uven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:5 - and all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim shall die, from the firstborn of Par`oh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - For I will go through the land of Mitzrayim in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Mitzrayim I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - It happened at midnight, that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, from the firstborn of Par`oh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Yisra'el, both of man and of animal. It is mine."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - and it happened, when Par`oh would hardly let us go, that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29 - "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:20 - The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - The children of Re'uven, Yisra'el's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:2 - These are the names of the sons of Aharon: Nadav the firstborn, and Avihu, El`azar, and Itamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Yisra'el; and the Levites shall be mine:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim I made holy to me all the firstborn in Yisra'el, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Yisra'el from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - You shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Yisra'el."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:42 - Moshe numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Yisra'el, who exceed the number of the Levites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - from the firstborn of the children of Yisra'el he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Yisra'el; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Yisra'el, I have taken them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - For all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, I sanctified them for myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be your: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - Re'uven, the firstborn of Yisra'el; the sons of Re'uven: of Hanokh, the family of the Hanokhi; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4 - while the Mitzrim were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them: on their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15 - If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:16 - then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Yisra'el.

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