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*bkr - to be early
(EDA I 156)
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Ebla
ba-kà-lu-um /bakrum/
- season of early crops
(Krebernik 1983: 13)
Hebrew
bkr
- (pi.) to bear first-fruits
(HALOT 130)
Hebrew
bikkūrīm
- first-fruits
(HALOT 130)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
bwkrh
- the first blossoming
(DJPA 87)
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
bkwry
- earliest ripening
(DCPA 49)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
bakkīr
- early flowering
(DJBA 220)
Syriac
bkr
- to be first
(LSyr. 73, SL 126)
Syriac
bakkārā
- first, earliest (generally said of fruit)
(LSyr. 73, SL 126)
Arabic
bkr
- to go forth early in the morning
(Lane 239)
bakar-, bukrat- ‘early morning’, bakūr- ‘rain that falls in the first of its season’, bākūrat- ‘the first of fruit’.
Sabaic
bkr
- season of early crops
(SD 28)