בִּכּוּרִים
firstfruits
‘firstfruits’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 10 times (56%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 7 times (39%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1061 appears — 16 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 23:16 בִּכּוּרֵ֣י n c bp cs And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- Exodus 23:19 בִּכּוּרֵי֙ n c bp cs The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
- Exodus 34:22 בִּכּוּרֵ֖י n c bp cs You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
- Exodus 34:26 בִּכּוּרֵי֙ n c bp cs You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 2:14 בִּכּוּרִ֖ים בִּכּוּרֶֽי/ךָ n c bp n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms "'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
- Leviticus 23:17 בִּכּוּרִ֖ים n c bp You shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:20 הַ/בִּכּוּרִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c bp The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
Numbers 3 verses
- Numbers 13:20 בִּכּוּרֵ֥י n c bp cs and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
- Numbers 18:13 בִּכּוּרֵ֞י n c bp cs The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 28:26 הַ/בִּכּוּרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c bp Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal-offering to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;
2 Kings 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 10:35 בִּכּוּרֵ֣י וּ/בִכּוּרֵ֛י n c bp cs conj + n c bp cs and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;
- Nehemiah 13:31 וְ/לַ/בִּכּוּרִ֑ים conj + prep det + n c bp and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
Nahum 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בכור — transliterated bikkûwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “firstfruits.” Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. Spanning 16 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Exodus (25% of all occurrences). Debuting at Exodus 23:16, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1061 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,612
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,612 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 63%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Firstfruits 12×
- American Standard Version: First-fruits 13×, First-ripe 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Firstfruits 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Firstfruits 5×, Firstfruits of 4×, First fruits 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1061 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1061 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1061 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1061 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- first-fruits
- the first of the crops and fruit that ripened, was gathered, and offered to God according to the ritual of Pentecost
- the bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost
- the day of the first-fruits (Pentecost)
Word origin
n.m. first-fruits—Lv 2:14; 23:17; Nu 28:26 (P) 2 K 4:42; Na 3:12; Ne 13:31; בִּכֻּרִים Lv 23:20 (P); cstr. בִּכּוּרֵי Ex 23:16, 19 (E) 34:22, 26 (J) Nu 13:20 (E) 18:13 (P) Ne 10:36(×2) Ez 44:30; sf. בִּכּוּרֶיךָ Lv 2:14;—the first of grain and fruit that ripened and was gathered and offered to god according to the ritual; לֶחֶם הַבִּכּוּרִים bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost Lv 23:20; יום הבכורים day of the first-fruits (Pentecost) Nu 28:26.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בכר (bâkar) (H1069) — to be firstborn.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בְּכוֹר
- first-born (opp. פשוט, a plain, unprivileged son); also of animals. B. Bath. 126ᵃ ב׳ ופשוט; a. fr.—Y. Pes. X, beg. 37ᵇ הוה ב׳ והוה אכיל was a first-born and yet did not fast (on the eve of Passover).—Yeb. 16ᵃ; Y. ib. I, 3ᵃ bot. ב׳ שטן (play on קטן) the first in obstinate dispute.—Gen. R. s. 91 (ref. to Gen. XLII, 37) הרי זה ב׳ שוטה וכ׳ is this a foolish first-born son! are thy children not my children? [ב׳ שוטה a first-born son by his mother, v. בּוּכְרָא I.]—Bekh. VIII, 1, a. fr. ב׳ לנחלה a first-born with the privileges of a double share of inheritance (Deut. XXI, 15 sq.), ב׳ לכהן one who must be redeemed from the priest (Ex. XIII, 2). Ib. IV, 4 ראה את הב׳ examined the first-born animal (and declared it defective); a. fr.—Pl. בְּכוֹרִים, בְּכוֹרוֹת. Ex. R. s. 18 בְּכוֹרֵי מצרים the first-born of Egyptian cattle; ib. מכת בכורות the plague of the first-born in Egypt; Num. R. s. 4; a. fr.—Bekh. IV, 5 he who receives payment להיות רואה ב׳ for examining first-born animals (as to bodily defects, v. supra); a. fr.—[Y. Shek. III, beg. 47ᵇ הבכו׳, read הבַּכִּירוֹת.] Ch. בּוּכְרָא. e.g. Genesis 42:37
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms H1061 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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