Animals

בְּכֹר Young camel

Every verse in which this word stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

Land animalGematria 222×1 in TanakhNot kosherFirst appearance:

The becher, the young camel — once, in Yeshayahu 60:6, the young camels of Midian and Eifah; the corpus writes it only with a suffix, never bare.

Isaiah 60:6ישעיהו ס:ו

שִֽׁפְעַת גְּמַלִּים תְּכַסֵּךְ בִּכְרֵי מִדְיָן וְעֵיפָה כֻּלָּם מִשְּׁבָא יָבֹאוּ זָהָב וּלְבוֹנָה יִשָּׂאוּ וּתְהִלֹּת יְהוָה יְבַשֵּֽׂרוּ

The caravan of camels shall cover thee, And of the young camels of Midian and Ephah, All coming from Sheba; They shall bring gold and incense, And shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.

Quick answers

What is the Hebrew word for young camel?

Young camel in Hebrew is בכר, with a gematria of 222 in the standard method.

How many times is the young camel mentioned in the Tanakh?

The word stands 1 time in the Tanakh, first at Isaiah 60:6.

A spelling is not a word. The bare letters בכר stand 10 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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