Firstfruit
בִּכּוּרִיםStrong’s H1061bikkur (bik-kur)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bikkur is the Hebrew word usually translated “first-fruits of”, “first-fruits” and “first-fruits your”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.”
Meaning
- First-fruitsthe first of the crops and fruit that ripened, was gathered, and offered to God according to the ritual of Pentecost · the bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost · the day of the first-fruits (Pentecost)
How it's translated
- first-fruits of 8
- first-fruits 4
- the first-fruits 2
- first-fruits your 1
- and first-fruits of 1
- and for the first-fruits 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 4
- Leviticus 3
- Numbers 3
- Nehemiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Ezekiel 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:19The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
- Exodus 34:22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
- Exodus 34:26The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
- Leviticus 2:14And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
- Leviticus 23:17Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 23:20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Hebrew dictionary
בִּכּוּרִים bikkur · firstfruit
1) first-fruits 1a) the first of the crops and fruit that ripened, was gathered, and offered to God according to the ritual of Pentecost 1b) the bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost 1c) the day of the first-fruits (Pentecost)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.