bachar · be firstborn

What it means

bachar (בָּכַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be firstborn”.

Be born first; be counted as firstborn.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Give birth for the first time; treat as the eldest son.
2. Yield an early crop again.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• as a firstborn belongs ×1
• as of one bearing her first child ×1
• it will bear new fruit ×1
• make firstborn ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 27:26

  But a firstborn, which as a firstborn belongs to YHWH, among the beasts, no man shall consecrate it; whether ox or lamb, it is YHWH’s.

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then on the day that he gives his sons as an inheritance what he has, he may not make firstborn the son of the loved one in place of the son of the hated one, the firstborn.

• Jeremiah 4:31

  For I heard a voice as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bearing her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, spreading out her palms: “Woe to me now, for my soul faints before murderers!”

• Ezekiel 47:12

  And by the torrent will grow up, on its bank, on one side and on the other, every tree for food; its leaf will not wither, nor will its fruit fail; every month it will bear new fruit, for its water goes out from the sanctuary; and its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for medicine.”