Lexical Summary bikkurim: first fruits Original Word: בִּכּוּרTransliteration: bikkurim Phonetic Spelling: (bik-koor') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: first fruits Meaning: the first-fruits of the crop Strong's Concordance first fruit ripe figuratively, hasty fruit From bakar; the first-fruits of the crop -- first fruit (-ripe (figuratively)), hasty fruit. see HEBREW bakar Brown-Driver-Briggs H1061. bikkurim בִּכּוּרִים noun masculine first-fruits — Leviticus 2:14; 23:17; Numbers 28:26 (P) 2 Kings 4:42; Nehemiah 3:12; 13:31; בִּכֻּרִים Leviticus 23:20 (P); construct בִּכּוּרֵי Exodus 23:16, 19 (E) 34:22, 26 (J) Numbers 13:20 (E) 18:13 (P) Nehemiah 10:36 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 44:30; suffix בִּכּוּרֶיךָ Leviticus 2:14; — the first of grain and ftuit that ripened and was gathered and offered to God according to the ritual; הַבִּכּוּרִים לֶחֶם bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost 23:20; הבכורים יום day of the first-fruits (Pentecost) Numbers 28:26. בַּל see below בלה. בֵּלְאשַׁצַּר בֵּל, see below בעל, p. 128. |
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