Gematria of Firstborn
4 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “firstborn” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 5,069 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 4
- Occurrences
- 5,069
- Distinct values
- 4
The 4 Hebrew words rendered “firstborn”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 3:16בראשית ג:טזבָנִים
firstborn; hence, chief
First appearance ·Genesis 10:15בראשית י:טובְּכֹרוֹ
the firstling of man or beast; abstractly primogeniture
First appearance ·Genesis 4:4בראשית ד:דמִבְּכֹרוֹת
the eldest daughter
First appearance ·Genesis 19:31בראשית יט:לאהַבְּכִירָה
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of firstborn?
The Tanakh renders “firstborn” with 4 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: בן = 52, בכור = 228, בכורה = 233, and 1 more.
How do you say firstborn in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 4 Hebrew words for “firstborn”; the most frequent are בן (bên), 4,931 times; בכור (bᵉkôwr), 118 times; בכורה (bᵉkôwrâh), 14 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.