Birthright
בְּכֹרָהStrong’s H1062bekhorah (be-kho-rah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bekhorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “birthright his”, “birthright” and “birthright your”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.”
Meaning
- Birthright, primogeniture, right of the first-born
How it's translated
- birthright his 2
- the birthright 2
- birthright your 1
- a birthright 1
- birthright my 1
- according to birthright his 1
- to the birthright 1
- and the birthright 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:32And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
- Genesis 25:33And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
- Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 27:36And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
- Genesis 43:33And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
- Deuteronomy 21:17But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּכֹרָה bekhorah · birthright
birthright, primogeniture, right of the first-born
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “birthright” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIRTH'RIGHT, noun
[birth and right.]
Any right or privilege, to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution.
- “Esau, for a morsel, sold his birthright” Hebrews 12:16
All definitions and other forms of “birthright”
BIRTH'-SONG, noun
A song sung at the birth of a person.
BIRTH'-STRANGLED, adjective
[birth and strangle.]
Strangled or suffocated in being born.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.