בָּכַרbâkar
rise early, do anything early, virgin, woman having her first child
Pronunciation: baw-kar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1069
Meanings
Pi`el
1. bear early, new fruit (Ezekiel 47:12)
2. make, constitute as first-born (Deuteronomy 21:16)
Pu`al: born, made a firstling (Leviticus 27:26)
Hiph`il: one bearing her first child (Jeremiah 4:31)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 27:26 “You may not dedicate a firstborn animal to the Lord, for the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats already belong to him.
- Deuteronomy 21:16 When the man divides his inheritance, he may not give the larger inheritance to his younger son, the son of the wife he loves, as if he were the firstborn son.
- Jeremiah 4:31 I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor, the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is beautiful Jerusalem gasping for breath and crying out, “Help! I’m being murdered!”
- Ezekiel 47:12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow along both sides of the river. The leaves of these trees will never turn brown and fall, and there will always be fruit on their branches. There will be a new crop every month, for they are watered by the river flowing from the Temple. The fruit will be for food and the leaves for healing.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).