The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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Note: the primary source itself has an uncertain reading here (marked with a slash in the text), not a manuscript variant. The entries below are speculative alternate readings, listed in sequence.

l_ p03

l_ prep. to, for

bkwr noun sg. emphatic

bkwr, bwkrˀ (bŭḵur, buḵrā) n.m. firstborn

1 firstborn Com. ▶ more

--(a) human Com, ^-OA ^-OfA ^-BA ^-MA.

--(b) animal Com, ^-OA ^-OfA ^-BA ^-MA.

--(c) inanimate: see s.v. bkwr#2 JBA.

2 first one, earliest one Syr, Man.

3 Bukhra: the sacramental Host in Nestorian ritual Syr.