בֹּֽכְרוּ
Bocheru
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Bocheru’ 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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1074 appears — 2 distinct verses 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.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 8:38 בֹּ֨כְרוּ֙ n Proper Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
- 1 Chronicles 9:44 בֹּ֨כְרוּ֙ n Proper Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
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.
“Bocheru” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בכרו (Bôkᵉrûw). With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in 1 Chronicles 8:38. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1074 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.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 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 →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Bocheru 2×
- American Standard Version: Azrikam bocheru 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bocheru 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bokeru 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1074 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1074 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1074 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1074 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- Bocheru = "firstborn"
- a Benjamite
Word origin
n.pr.m. a Benjamite (on form cf. גַּשְׁמוּ, מְלִיכוּ, & Ol§ 107 ad fin. on Nab. n.pr. in ו v. EutNab24, 25, etc. & Nöib. 73 ff.) 1 Ch 8:38 = 9:44.
— 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1074, 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
Shares the same root
- בכור bᵉkôwr H1060 firstborn
- בכור bikkûwr H1061 firstfruits
- בכירה bᵉkîyrâh H1067 firstborn daughter
- בכר beker H1070 young camel
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Bocheru). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(youth), son of Azel, according to the present Hebrew text of (1 Chronicles 8:38)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the first born
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
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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