noun · neuter
prōtotokiem
Strong’sG4415
the birthright
stem prōtotoki-once in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† πρωτοτόκια, -ων, τά
(< πρωτότοκος), [in LXX (with v.l. -εῖα, -εία): Ge 25:31 ff. 27:36, De 21:17, I Ch 5:1 (בְּכוֹרָה)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4415 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpro-tot-ok'-ee-ah
primogeniture (as a privilege)
Fromfrom G4416;
King Jamesbirthright.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
with variant πρωτοτοκ-τοκεῖα, rights of the first-born, birthright, LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | prōtotokiem | prōtotokieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | prōtotokieu | prōtotokieiu |
| to, for dative | prōtotokie | prōtotokiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
prōtotokie is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
prōtotokieim1×
Hebrews 12:16… hos anti brōsiau henau apodōeta teim prōtotokieim heautou.… for a single meal sold his birthright.