Bekhor בְּכוֹר

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Bekhor
בְּכוֹר
Transliterationbekhor
Strong's numberH1060
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossfirstborn
Occurrences122 in 100 verses
Most frequent in1 Chronicles (23)

Bekhor (Hebrew בְּכוֹר, Strong's H1060) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “firstborn”. It occurs 122 times in 100 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) firstborn, firstling
1a) of men and women
1b) of animals
1c) noun of relation (fig.)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVfirstborn (101), firstling (9), eldest (4), son (1), firstlings (1)
BSBfirstborn (70), his firstborn (12), was the firstborn (5), firstborn son (4), your firstborn (3), is my firstborn (2), well as the firstborn (2), firstborn male (2), was his firstborn (2), their oldest (2), my firstborn (2), one is the firstborn (1), and 7 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Bekhor, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Micah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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