Early fig
בַּכֻּרוֹתStrong’s H1063bikkurah (bik-ku-rah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bikkurah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like an early fig”, “early figs” and “like early fig”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.”
Meaning
- First-ripe fig, early fig
- (TWOT) firstfruits
How it's translated
- like an early fig 1
- the early figs 1
- like early fig 1
- early fig 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Micah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 24:2One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
- Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
- Micah 7:1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּכֻּרוֹת bikkurah · early fig
1) first-ripe fig, early fig 2) (TWOT) firstfruits Also means: bak.ku.rah (בִּכּוּרָה "firstfruit" H1073)
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.