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Strong's #1062: bkowrah (pronounced bek-o-raw')

or (short) bkorah {bek-o-raw'}; feminine of 1060; the firstling of man or beast; abstractly primogeniture:--birthright, firstborn(-ling).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bekôrâh

1) birthright, primogeniture, right of the first-born

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H1060



Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Genesis 4:4: "he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat"
Genesis 25:31: "Sell me this day thy birthright."
Genesis 25:32: "to die: and what profit shall this birthright"
Genesis 25:33: "unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob."
Genesis 25:34: "thus Esau despised his birthright."
Genesis 27:36: "me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away"
Genesis 43:33: "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, according to his youth: and the men marveled"
Deuteronomy 12:6: "of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:"
Deuteronomy 12:17: "of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows"
Deuteronomy 14:23: "of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn"
Deuteronomy 21:17: "is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn"
1 Chronicles 5:1: "but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son"
1 Chronicles 5:1: "the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright."
1 Chronicles 5:2: "above his brethren, him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)"
Nehemiah 10:36: "and of our cattle, as it is written and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house"









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