בֶּכֶר
young camel
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1070 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Isaiah 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.
“young camel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun בכר (beker). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Isaiah 60:6. It clusters with בכר, בכור and בכור under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1070 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: Thee the dromedaries 1×
- American Standard Version: Thee 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Young camels 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Young camels of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1070 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1070 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1070 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1070 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- young camel, dromedary
Word origin
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.
בָּכַר
- [to break forth,] to be early. [Kal prob. not used.]
- 1. to be early, produce first fruits. Tanḥ. Vayḥi 14; Gen. R. s. 99 מְבַכֶּרֶת (פירותיה) has early crops, opp. מלקשת, מאפלת. [Ib. end מבכרין מפירותיהם read מכבדין, v. כָּבַד.]
- 2. to bear for the first time (of animals). Bekh. I, 3 sq. שלא בִיכְּרָה that never before had given birth; a. fr.
- 3. (neut. v.) to be first in ripening. Bicc. III, 1 and sees תאנה שבִּכְּרָה a fig which is first ripe, אשכול שביכר a cluster of grapes which &c. Y. Maasr. I, 49ᵃ top משיְבַכֵּר צמייא וכ׳, v. צמייא. Ib. משבִּיכֵּירוּ בנות שבע, v. בְּרַת. Ib. בִּיכֵּירוּ, משיְבַכְּרוּ (v. בָּחַל as to spelling).
- 4. (b. h.) to recognize as first-born (בכור). B. Bath. 130ᵃ sq.
- same. Bekh. III, 2 המַבְכִּירוֹת those animals which have given birth for the first time.
- tohasten. Yalk. Gen. 161 שהיא מִתְבַּכֶּרֶת בפירותיה, v. supra.
בְּכַר
- —Pa. בַּכִּר
- 1. to produce, mature. Targ. Y. Deut. XXXIII, 14 דמְבַכְּרָא וכ׳ which his land produces.
- 2. to recognize as first-born. Targ. O. Deut. XXI, 16.
- to be dedicated as the first-born. Targ. O. Lev. XXVII, 26.
כַּר
- , v. כָּרָה)
- 1. bolster, mattress. Mikv. X, 2. Kel. XXVI, 5, v. כֶּסֶת; a. fr.—Pl. כָּרִים. Kil. IX, 2; a. fr.—Meg. 12ᵃ (expl. כרפס, Esth. I, 6) כ׳ של פסים mattresses of striped goods. e.g. Esther 1:6
- 2. rounded; (cmp. כֶּבֶשׂ) fat lamb. Men. 66ᵇ, a. e., v. כַּרְמֶל.—Esth. R. to I, 14 (play on כ̇ר̇ש̇נ̇א) מי … כ̇ר̇ בן ש̇נ̇ה (not פר) who offers unto thee a lamb one year old?—Pl. as ab. Meg. 12ᵇ כ׳ בני שנה; Yalk. Esth. 1051 פרים (corr. acc.). [Y. Sabb. V, 7ᵇ bot. כ׳ יוצאין לבובין ed. Krot., read: זכרים.]—Trnsf. commander.—Pl. as ab. Koh. R. to XII, 7, a. e., v. כלירכין.—4) runner, roller.—Pl. as ab. Gen. R. s. 69 מעבירין כ׳ עליהם pass the paving rollers over them; (ib. s. 41 רדיה; Yalk. Is. 337 דדין).
כַּר ²
- , bolster. Gitt. 47ᵃ כריסי כָּרִי my fat belly is my bolster. Y. Yoma VIII, 44ᵈ top; Y. Taan. I, 64ᶜ [read:] (תותי) תחות כָּרֵיה under his bolster.—Pl. כָּרִין. Targ. Lam. II, 21.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1070, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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