bakhar (to be/bear firstborn)

Meaning

To be born first(Piel) · (Pual) · (Hiphil) one bearing her first child

How it's translated

it will be born a firstling 1
to treat as firstborn 1
like a bearing a first child 1
it will bear early fruit 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 1
Deuteronomy 1
Jeremiah 1
Ezekiel 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Deuteronomy 21:16Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Ezekiel 47:12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

Hebrew dictionary

בָּכַר bakhar · to be/bear firstborn

1) to be born first 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to bear early, new fruit 1a2) to give the right of the firstborn 1a2a) to make as firstborn 1a2b) to constitute as firstborn 1b) (Pual) 1b1) to be born a firstling 1b2) to be made a firstling 1c) (Hiphil) one bearing her first child

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).