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Words
πρωτοτόκια G4415
- Home gloss
- birthright
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- birthright / birthright / rights of the firstborn
- Note
- The rights of the firstborn (πρωτότοκος, 25:25), a neuter plural: 25:31–34; 27:36; Heb 12:16
- Rulings
- 2, 148
Occurrences (5)
- 25:31 Now Jacob said to Esau, "Sell to me today your birthright to me."
- 25:32 Now Esau said, "Look, I am going to decease; and why to me this birthright?"
- 25:33 And Jacob said to him, "Swear to me today." And he swore to him; now Esau sold the birthright to Jacob.
- 25:34 Now Jacob gave to Esau bread and a stew of lentils; and he ate and drank, and having risen, he went off; and Esau belittled the birthright.
- 27:36 And he said, "Justly was his name called Jacob; for he has tripped me by the heel already this second time. My birthright he has taken, and now he has taken my blessing." And he said Esau to his father, "Have you not reserved for me a blessing, father?"