בְּכִירָה
bechira · firstborn daughter
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1067 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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bechira (בְּכִירָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “firstborn daughter”.
The firstborn daughter, the elder daughter.
How to say it
be·chi·ra
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
- The daughter born first among her sisters.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- older ×4
- firstborn ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 19:31
The older said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
- Genesis 19:33
So they made their father drink wine that night; and the older went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
- Genesis 19:34
The next day the older said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”
- Genesis 19:37
The older bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of Moab to this day.
- Genesis 29:26
Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
- 1 Samuel 14:49
The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the name of his two daughters: the name of the firstborn, Merab, and the name of the younger, Michal.