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בְּכֹרָֽה Young she-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 227×1 in TanakhNot kosherFirst appearance:

Once, in Yirmiyahu 2:23 — the swift young she-camel crossing her paths, the prophet's figure for restless Israel.

Jeremiah 2:23ירמיהו ב:כג

אֵיךְ תֹּאמְרִי לֹא נִטְמֵאתִי אַחֲרֵי הַבְּעָלִים לֹא הָלַכְתִּי רְאִי דַרְכֵּךְ בַּגַּיְא דְּעִי מֶה עָשִׂית בִּכְרָה קַלָּה מְשָׂרֶכֶת דְּרָכֶֽיהָ

How canst thou say: ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim’? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done; thou art a swift young camel traversing her ways;

Quick answers

What is the Hebrew word for young she-camel?

Young she-camel in Hebrew is בכרה, with a gematria of 227 in the standard method.

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

The word stands 1 time in the Tanakh, first at Jeremiah 2:23.

A spelling is not a word. The bare letters בכרה stand 2 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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