Firstborn
בְּכִירָהStrong’s H1067bekhirah (be-khi-rah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bekhirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “firstborn”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:”
Meaning
- Firstborn daughter, firstborn (of women)always used of women
How it's translated
- the firstborn 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
- 1 Samuel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
- Genesis 19:34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- Genesis 19:37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
- Genesis 29:26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
- 1 Samuel 14:49Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
Hebrew dictionary
בְּכִירָה bekhirah · firstborn
1) firstborn daughter, firstborn (of women) 1a) always used of women
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “firstborn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIRST'-BORN, adjective
- First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; as the first-born son.
- Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
All definitions and other forms of “firstborn”
FIRST'-BORN, noun
The eldest child; the first in the order of birth.
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.