HebrewH1306Proper Noun (Masculine)

בִּרְשַׁע

bir.sah

“Birsha”

1Occurrences

H1306Strong's #

Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Birsha, a king of Gomorrah

probably from H7562 (רֶשַׁע) with a prepositional prefix; with wickedness;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at § Birsha = "with iniquity" a king of Gomorrah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

בִּרְשַׁע appears 1 time in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis

Key Passages

Genesis 14:2BSB

went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.