Bikkurah בַּכֻּרוֹת
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| בַּכֻּרוֹת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | bikkurah |
| Strong's number | H1063 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | early fig |
| Occurrences | 4 in 4 verses |
| Most frequent in | Isaiah (1) |
Bikkurah (Hebrew בַּכֻּרוֹת, Strong's H1063) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “early fig”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) first-ripe fig, early fig
2) (TWOT) firstfruits
Also means: bak.ku.rah (בִּכּוּרָה "firstfruit" H1073)
2) (TWOT) firstfruits
Also means: bak.ku.rah (בִּכּוּרָה "firstfruit" H1073)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | firstripe (1), fruit (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | like a ripe fig (1), firstfruits (1), no early fig (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Bikkurah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Isaiah
- Isaiah 28:4And 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.The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.
Jeremiah
- 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.One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
Hosea
- 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 Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
Micah
- 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.Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
Notes
- 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.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).