birthright
حق البكورية
definition
noun
Being the good brother he is, Jacob offers Esau some lentil soup - on one condition: Esau has to forgo his birthright and inheritance as eldest son.
a particular right of possession or privilege one has from birth, especially as an eldest child.
translation of 'birthright'
noun
حق البكورية
example
Winning national championships is not their 'birthright' , and everyone's going to survive if Duke were to somehow have a few back-to-back 15-loss seasons.
But while his passage back to Asia sounds ‘natural’, considering his 'birthright' , Pascal's career choice was not so clear cut.
Titled Esau studies, the group chose that name explicitly to reflect the younger brother's undercutting of the older brother's 'birthright' .
The Middle Kingdom was established on the principle that those who are of lower rank and wish to better themselves can do so by means of great deeds and accomplishments rather than by 'birthright' .
We also have a 'birthright' : rhetoric's role in civic education.
This ancestral knowledge comes naturally to us; it is our 'birthright' .
It is my 'birthright' , as it is everyone else's in this town.
Overall, TAU students project a sense of a 'birthright' to education that is rare at UMB.
Or will they instead, like so many lambs led willingly to the slaughter, allow themselves to be demutualised - like Esau in the Bible surrender their 'birthright' for a mess of pottage?
If you learn too many other things, then this natural 'birthright' will become almost impossible to remember and relearn.
Every human being has a natural 'birthright' of having access to natural resources such as water.
The 'birthright' of Christian education was not stolen by skeptics and rationalists.
Mary Tudor acted swiftly to reclaim her 'birthright' ; her counter coup was decisive.
Notwithstanding the lack of paternal approval, Freeda George Foreman appears to have every chance of cashing in on her 'birthright' because apart from Ali and Frazier, there are a host of other familiar names floating around female boxing.
He reminds the king that he reversed the natural order of 'birthright' when he gave his daughters the crown.
Rather, in this character test, Esau has denigrated the 'birthright' and has proven himself unworthy of its privileges and obligations.
We will put a stop to Labour's politics of envy and give to tenants in London what is every other tenant's 'birthright' and reinstate the right to buy.
It is by now, they feel, a simple 'birthright' , as natural as the air they breathe.
It's your natural 'birthright' , but they make you pay for it.
she saw a liberal education as the 'birthright' of every child
A despiser of Western religions, he was an ardent polygamist, convinced that promiscuity was man's natural 'birthright' .
A generally accepted tenet of the American dream is that a high-quality education is a 'birthright' .
For the one got possession of the 'birthright' , and the other transferred the wealth of the Egyptians to the host of the Israelites.
I am a woman, possessing the softness and warmth that is my 'birthright' , and I love what I am.
she saw a liberal education as the 'birthright' of every child
Being the good brother he is, Jacob offers Esau some lentil soup - on one condition: Esau has to forgo his 'birthright' and inheritance as eldest son.
The 'birthright' is the prerogative of the eldest son.
Once mollified, they are possessed once again of that calm which is their 'birthright' , their black gaze deep.
The book is divided into sections and he deals with the various geographic regions, the monarchy, Buddhism, the life of the people and how it encompasses 'birthright' , education, food, fun, death and doctors.
For example, Talmudic law distinguishes individuals by both 'birthright' and ritual purity.
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