bikur · firstfruits

What it means

bikur (בִּכּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “firstfruits”.

The first of the harvest to ripen, which was offered to God.

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. The earliest part of the harvest, offered to God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• firstfruits ×7
• first fruits ×5
• first ripe ×2
• first-ripe fruits ×2
• first-ripe fruit ×1
• like an early fig ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 23:16

  And the feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field; and the feast of Ingathering at the going out of the year, when you gather in your labors from the field.

• Exodus 23:19

  The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

• Exodus 34:22

  And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe for yourself, the first fruits of the harvest of wheat, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

• Exodus 34:26

  The best of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.”

• Leviticus 2:14

  If you present a grain offering of first-ripe fruits to YHWH, you shall present as the grain offering of your first-ripe fruits fresh ears roasted in the fire, crushed new grain.

• Leviticus 23:17

  From your dwellings you shall bring two loaves for a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as first fruits to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:20

  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before YHWH, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to YHWH for the priest.

• Numbers 13:20

  and what the land is like, whether it is rich or poor, whether there are trees in it or not. Be strong and take some of the fruit of the land.” Now the days were the days of the first ripe grapes.

• Numbers 18:13

  The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to YHWH, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

• Numbers 28:26

  And on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to YHWH at your feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

• 2 Kings 4:42

  A man came from Baal-shalishah and brought the man of Elohim bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh grain in his sack. He said, “Give it to the people, and let them eat.”

• Nehemiah 10:35

  and to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year after year, to the house of YHWH;

• Nehemiah 13:31

  and for the offering of the wood at fixed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, my Elohim, for good.

• Isaiah 28:4

  And the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness, will be like an early fig before the summer, which the one who sees sees it, and while it is still in his hand he swallows it.

• Ezekiel 44:30

  And the first of all the firstfruits of everything, and every contribution of everything, of all your contributions, shall be for the priests; and the first of your dough you shall give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

• Nahum 3:12

  All your fortresses are fig trees with first-ripe fruit; if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

And 2 more times.