בִּכְרִי
Bichri
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1075 appears — 8 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.
2 Samuel 8 verses
- 2 Samuel 20:1 בִּכְרִ֖י n Proper There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20:2 בִּכְרִ֑י n Proper So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 20:6 בִּכְרִ֖י n Proper David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
- 2 Samuel 20:7 בִּכְרִֽי n Proper There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 20:10 בִּכְרִֽי n Proper But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 20:13 בִּכְרִֽי n Proper When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 20:21 בִּכְרִ֣י n Proper The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
- 2 Samuel 20:22 בִּכְרִי֙ n Proper Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
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.
The Hebrew name בכרי centers on the idea of “Bichri.” The word gravitates to 2 Samuel (100%). It appears 8 verses across 1 book of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at 2 Samuel 20:1, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1075 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 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: Bichri 8×
- American Standard Version: Bichri 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bichri 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bichri 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1075 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1075 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1075 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1075 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a Benjamite 2 S 20:1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 21, 22; only in phr. שֶׁבַע בֶּן־בִּכְרִי. e.g. 2 Samuel 20:1
- 2. perhaps adj.gent. pl. c. art. הַבִּכְרִים 2 S 20:14 the Bichrites (i.e. family of Shebaʿ), MT הַבֵּרִים; cf. 𝔊 ἐν Χαρρει = (ב)כרי; so Klo Dr. e.g. 2 Samuel 20:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (youthful)—
— 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.
כרי
- (b. h.) [to round, heap, cave,]
- 1. to dig. Mekh. Mishp., N’zikin, s. 11 כּוֹרֶה מנין how am I to know that he who digs a pit is responsible?—B. Kam. 51ᵃ כורה אחר כורה one who digs after another one, i.e. who completes the pit to its legal size. Succ. 53ᵃ; Macc. 11ᵃ בשעה שכ׳ דוד וכ׳ when David dug for the foundations; a. fr.—Part. pass. כָּרוּי, f. כְּרוּיָה hollowed out. Kel. III, 5, a. e., v. חִידּוּק a. בָּרָה.
- 2. to sit in a circle, v. infra.
- 1. to heap, pile. Gen. R. s. 100 (ref. to כריתי, Gen. L, 5) הרבה ממון תַּכְרֶה עליה much money shalt thou pile up (give me) for it (the grave); (some ed. הכרה Jacob piled up in settling with Esau). Ib. הִכְרֵתִי (corr. הִכְרֵיתִי); v. כְּרִי; Pesik. R. s. 1 וכל ממון שהיה לו ה׳ וכ׳ (not מסר לו) and he (Jacob) piled up whatever money he had to place it before Esau &c. e.g. Genesis 50:5
- 2. to invite to a banquet;
- 3. (with play on כרת) to excise, to destroy. Snh. 20ᵃ; Yalk. Sam. 142 (ref. to להברות, II Sam. III, 35, where Raba had before him a K’thib. להכרות) כתיב להכרות … בתחלה להַכְרוֹתוֹ וכ׳ it is written l’hakhroth (to entertain) and read l’habroth (v. בָּרָה): originally they came with the intention of destroying him (for the murder of Abner), and finally (when convinced of his innocence) they came to comfort him; [Yalk. Ms. to Sam. l. c., quoted in Rabb. D. S. Snh. l. c. note 9: כתיב לִבְרוֹת וקרינן להַבְרוֹת בתחלה לברות וכ׳ it is written libroth (to pierce, cmp. Ez. XXIII, 47), and we read l’habroth &c.]. e.g. 2 Samuel 3:35
כְּרֵי
- , to dig, bore. Targ. O. Ex. XXI, 33 יִכְרֵי ed. Berl. (oth. ed. יִכְרֶה). Targ. Ps. XL, 7; a. e.—B. Kam. 51ᵃ אמרי ליה זיל כְּרֵי לן ואזל כְּרָא להו (some ed. כָּרָה hebr.) they said to him, go and dig for us, and he went and dug &c. Ib. 48ᵃ כמאן דכַרְיֵיה דמי he is as responsible as if he had dug it. Succ. 53ᵇ בְּרִינָן פורתא וכ׳ we bore only a little and there comes water; a. e.—*Taan. 24ᵃ דהוה כָּרֵיא בהוצא that he was boring a hole in the fence (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note for Var. lect.).—[כרי to be narrow, distressed, part. כְּרִי, כַּרְיָא, pl. כְּרִין, v. כְּרַהּ]
כְּרִי
- (preced.) heap, pile. Ex. R. s. 31 (ref. to כריתי, Gen. L, 5, v. כָּרָה) נטל … ועשה אותו כ׳ he (Jacob) took all the money he possessed and made a pile of it; כ׳ של דינרין וכ׳ a pile of denars have I given to Esau. Tosef. Ter. III, 17. Ter. III, 5. Y. ib. I, 40ᵇ bot. הבקיר כֶּרְיוֹ (not כריי) if a man renounced possession of his pile (store) of grain. Ib. IV, 42ᵈ top לפטור את כִּירְיוֹ to discharge the duty of T’rumah for his entire store. Y. Gitt. VII, 48ᶜ bot. תרם את כִּירְייוֹ if he gave T’rumah for his store; a. fr.—Pl. כְּרָיִים. Y. Shek. III, end, 47ᶜ אילו שני כ׳ וכ׳ if it were a case of two piles for which a person had discharged T’rumah &c. e.g. Genesis 50:5
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 5 distinct written forms H1075 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּכְרִֽי | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 20:7 | 3 |
| בִּכְרִ֖י | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 20:1 | 2 |
| בִּכְרִ֑י | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 20:2 | 1 |
| בִּכְרִ֣י | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 20:21 | 1 |
| בִּכְרִי֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 20:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1075, 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 (Bichri). 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
(first-born), (2 Samuel 20:1) an ancestor of Sheba.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
first-born; first fruits
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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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