Genesis 25:31
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
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Birthright
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Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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בְּכוֹרָה
bᵉkôwrâh · bek-o-raw'
9 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
the firstling of man or beast; abstractly primogeniture
Strong's KJV usage: birthright, firstborn(-ling).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 25:31Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 5:2
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prōtotókia · pro-tot-ok'-ee-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
primogeniture (as a privilege)
Strong's KJV usage: :--birthright.
Strong's first: Hebrews 12:16Strong's last: Hebrews 12:16
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H1062
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
H1062
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
H1062
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
H1062
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
H1062
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
H1062
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
H1062
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
H1062
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
H1062
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
G4415
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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birthright
BIRTH'RIGHT, noun [birth and right.] Any right or privilege, to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution.
Esau, for a morsel, sold his birthright Hebrews 12:16.
It may be used in the sense of primogeniture, or the privilege of the first born, but is applicable to any right which results from descent.
BIRTH'-SONG, noun A song sung at the birth of a person.
BIRTH'-STRANGLED, adjective [birth and strangle.] Strangled or suffocated in being born.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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