בְּכוֹרַת
be.kho.rat
H1064
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Hebrew
Becorath
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Hebrew
Language
be.kho.rat is used as a personal name within Kish’s ancestry in 1 Samuel 9:1.
The attested use is a proper personal name in a genealogy-like chain: 1 Samuel 9:1 places the named individual between Zeror and Aphiah in the ancestry of Kish.
Senses in use
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Personal name in Kish’s ancestry · dominant
In 1 Samuel 9:1, the form is tagged as a proper noun and occurs in the sequence “son of Zeror son of Becorath son of Aphiah,” identifying an individual in Kish’s ancestral line. The APB renders the verse’s ancestry chain with “son of Becorath.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Samuel 9:1, the APB presents the name in the ancestry sequence as “son of Becorath.” The verse is read as a whole, but the clause plainly locates the term as a personal name.