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Deuteronomy 33:17
“His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1060 · Hebrew
- Definition
- firstborn; hence, chief
- Derivation
- from H1069 (בָּכַר);
- KJV renderings
- eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).
- Grammar
- בְּכ֨וֹר — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 118 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:15Genesis 22:21Genesis 25:13Genesis 27:19Genesis 27:32
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בְּכוֹר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.