πρωτοτόκιον
birthright
Where this word appears
Every passage where πρωτοτόκιον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 25:31 πρωτοτόκιον And Jacob said to Esau, Sell me this day your birthright.
- Genesis 25:32 πρωτοτόκιον And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and for what good does this birthright belong to me?
- Genesis 25:33 πρωτοτόκιον And Jacob said to him, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him; and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob.
- Genesis 25:34 πρωτοτόκιον And Jacob gave bread to Esau, and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and he arose and departed; so Esau slighted his birthright.
- Genesis 27:36 πρωτοτόκιον And he said, Rightly was his name called Jacob, for behold! this second time has he supplanted me; he has both taken my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing; and Esau said to his father, Have you not left a blessing for me, father?
- Deuteronomy 21:17 πρωτοτόκιον But he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.
About this word
About this word
πρωτοτόκιον (prōtotókion), “birthright,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
