Strong's Hebrew · H1067

בְּכִירָה

bᵉkîyrâh · bek-ee-raw'

firstborn.

Definition

the eldest daughter

Derivation

feminine from H1069 (בָּכַר);

Appears 6 times in Scripture

Genesis 19:37

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

1 Samuel 14:49

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).

Genesis 19:34

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

Genesis 19:31

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

Genesis 29:26

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Genesis 19:33

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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