בִּכּוּרָה
early fig
‘early fig’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1063 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 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.
Hosea 1 verse
Micah 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.
“early fig” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun בכורה (bikkûwrâh). A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Hosea, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Hosea 9:10, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1063 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
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: Firstripe 1×, Firstripe fruit 1×
- American Standard Version: First-ripe 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Early fig 1×, Firstfruits 1×, Like a ripe fig 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Like the first fruit 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1063 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1063 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1063 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1063 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 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-ripe fig, early fig
- (TWOT) firstfruits
Word origin
n.f. first ripe fig, early fig (regarded as a delicacy) (Löw391; cf. Arabic بَاكُورَة, Span. albacora, Moorish bokkôre) Mi 7:1; Ho 9:10; sf. בִּכּוּרָהּ = בִּכּוּרָתָהּ (read בִּכּוּרָה Di), Is 28:4; pl. בַּכֻּרוֹת Je 24:2. בַּכֻּרוֹת Je 24:2 prob. a diff. word, pl. abstr. = early ripeness, cf. Du.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בכור (bikkûwr) (H1061) — firstfruits.
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.
בִּכּוּרָה
- early fruit, esp. fig.
- Pl. בִּכּוּרוֹת. Gen. R. s. 22 היה אוכל הב׳ וכ׳ ate the early fruits himself and offered the late to the king. Snh. 91ᵇ; Lev. R. s. 4 ב׳ נאות fine early figs. Ter. IV, 6 בב׳ at the time of early ripening.—2) Pl. בִּכּוּרִים m. (b. h.) first fruits (to be offered), (sub. מנחת) offering of first fruits. Bicc. I, 1; a. fr.—Biccurim, name of a treatise of the Mishnah, belonging to the order of Seeds (זרעים).
בְּכוֹרָה
- 1. first-born. Pl. בְּכוֹרוֹת. Ex. R. s. 18 הנקבות הב׳ the first-born females (in Egypt).
- 2. first birth, birth-right. B. Bath. 123ᵃ נטל ב׳ מראובן וכ׳ took the birth-right from Reuben and gave it to Joseph. Ib. ראויה היתה ב׳ וכ׳ the first birth (of Jacob’s children) was destined to issue from Rachel. Ib. 124ᵃ חלק ב׳ the share of the first-born; a. fr.
- 3. the law appertaining to first-born animals, v. בְּכוֹר.—Bekh. I, 1 חייב בב׳ is subject to the law &c., פטור מן הב׳ is exempt from &c.; a. v. fr.—Pl. בְּכוֹרוֹת, v. supra a. בְּכוֹר.—B’khoroth (Bekh.), name of a Talmudic treatise, belonging to the order of Kodashim (קדשים).
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 2 distinct written forms H1063 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּכּוּרָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Micah 7:1 | 1 |
| כְּ/בִכּוּרָ֤ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Hosea 9:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1063, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
