first-born; first fruits
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BICHRI.Sheba the son of Bichri (2Sa_20:1) should rather be Sheba the Bichrite, i.e. a descendant of Becher (Gen_46:21).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
"Youthful"; else "firstborn"; else son of Becher. (Sheba: 2Sa_20:1.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Bich'ri. (first-born). 2Sa_20:1. An ancestor of Sheba.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bik?rı̄ (בּכרי, bikhrı̄, ?first born?; compare HPN, 88, 102): Father of Sheba who rebelled against David. Bichri is of the house of Benjamin and the word probably means a ?descendant of Becher? (2Sa_20:1). Compare BECHER 1.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bichri
(Heb. Bikri',בַּכְרִי, first-born or youthful, perhaps Becherite; Sept. Βοχορί; Vulg. Bichri), apparently a Benjamite, father of Sheba, the revolter from David (2Sa_20:1 sq.). B.C. ante 1016. SEE BECHER.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.