Strong's Lexicon

H1061

H1061 — בִּכּוּר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewbikkuwrnoun mascOccurrences: 18TWOT: 244e

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1061
Word:בִּכּוּר
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H1069
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:18
Transliteration:bikkuwr
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:bik-koor'
Meaning:1. the first-fruits of the crop
KJV Renderings:first fruit (-ripe (figuratively)), hasty fruit.

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בִּכּוּרִים noun masculine first-fruitsLev 2:14; Lev 23:17; Num 28:26 ( P ) 2Kgs 4:42 ; Neh 3:12; Neh 13:31 בִּכֻּרִים Lev 23:20 ( P ); construct בִּכּוּרֵי Exod 23:16; Exod 23:19 ( E ) Exod 34:22 ; Exod 34:26 ( J ) Num 13:20 ( E ) Num 18:13 ( P ) Neh 10:36 (twice in verse); Ezek 44:30 suffix בִּכּוּרֶיךָ Lev 2:14 — the first of grain and ftuit that ripened and was gathered and offered to God according to the ritual; לֶחֶם הַבִּכּוּרִים bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost Lev 23:20 יום הבכורים day of the first-fruits (Pentecost) Num 28:26.


בַּל see below בלה.


בֵּל, בֵּלְאשַׁצַּר see below בעל, p. 128.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

בכור (bik-koor’)

Exodus 23:16

KJV: And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
EHCC: the firstfruits of thy labours,

Exodus 34:22

KJV: And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.year’s end: Heb. revolution of the year
EHCC: the firstfruits afohea harvest,

Numbers 13:20

KJV: And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
EHCC: the time of the irstripe grapes.

Numbers 18:13

KJV: And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
EHCC: whatsoever is first ripe in the land,

Numbers 28:26

KJV: Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
EHCC: Also in the day of the firstfruits,

2 Kings 4:42

KJV: And there came a man from Baal–shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.the husk…: or, his scrip, or, garment
EHCC: bread of the firstfruits,

Nehemiah 10:35

KJV: And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord:
EHCC: (36).Anc co bring the firstfrauits of our

Isaiah 28:4

KJV: And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.eateth: Heb. swalloweth
EHCC: 08 the hasty fruit before the summer; (lit

Ezekiel 44:30

KJV: And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.And the first: or, And the chief
EHCC: the first of all the firstfraits of

Nahum 3:12

KJV: All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
EHCC: fig trees with the firstripe figs:
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