בִּכְרִיBikrîy
proper name, masculine: youthful
Pronunciation: bik-ree' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1075
Meanings
1. a Benjamite (2 Samuel 20:1; 2 Samuel 20:2; 2 Samuel 20:6)
2. the Bichrites, perhaps adjective [of a people] plural with article, (i.e. family of Sheba`) (2 Samuel 20:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 20:1 There happened to be a troublemaker there named Sheba son of Bicri, a man from the tribe of Benjamin. Sheba blew a ram’s horn and began to chant: “Down with the dynasty of David! We have no interest in the son of Jesse. Come on, you men of Israel, back to your homes!”
- 2 Samuel 20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stayed with their king and escorted him from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 20:6 Then David said to Abishai, “Sheba son of Bicri is going to hurt us more than Absalom did. Quick, take my troops and chase after him before he gets into a fortified town where we can’t reach him.”
- 2 Samuel 20:7 So Abishai and Joab, together with the king’s bodyguard and all the mighty warriors, set out from Jerusalem to go after Sheba.
- 2 Samuel 20:10 Amasa didn’t notice the dagger in his left hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it so that his insides gushed out onto the ground. Joab did not need to strike again, and Amasa soon died. Joab and his brother Abishai left him lying there and continued after Sheba.
- 2 Samuel 20:13 With Amasa’s body out of the way, everyone went on with Joab to capture Sheba son of Bicri.
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).