Definition

primogeniture (as a privilege)

Etymology

from G4416 (πρωτότοκος);

Word family

• πρωτότοκος prōtótokos

How the KJV renders it

• birthright

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.