birthright 音标拼音: [b'ɚθr
, ɑɪt]
n . 生来就有的权利,长子继承权
生来就有的权利,长子继承权
birthright n 1 :
a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth ;
"
free public education is the birthright of every American child "
2 :
an inheritance coming by right of birth (
especially by primogeniture ) [
synonym : {
birthright }, {
patrimony }]
3 :
personal characteristics that are inherited at birth Birthright \
Birth "
right `\,
n .
Any right ,
privilege ,
or possession to which a person is entitled by birth ,
such as an estate descendible by law to an heir ,
or civil liberty under a free constitution ;
esp .
the rights or inheritance of the first born .
[
1913 Webster ]
Lest there be any . . .
profane person ,
as Esau ,
who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright . --
Heb .
xii .
16 .
[
1913 Webster ]
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "
birthright ":
appanage ,
appurtenance ,
authority ,
bequeathal ,
bequest ,
borough -
English ,
claim ,
coheirship ,
conjugal right ,
coparcenary ,
demand ,
divine right ,
droit ,
due ,
entail ,
faculty ,
gavelkind ,
heirloom ,
heirship ,
hereditament ,
heritable ,
heritage ,
heritance ,
inalienable right ,
incorporeal hereditament ,
inheritance ,
interest ,
law of succession ,
legacy ,
line of succession ,
mode of succession ,
natural right ,
patrimony ,
perquisite ,
postremogeniture ,
power ,
prerogative ,
prescription ,
presumptive right ,
pretense ,
pretension ,
primogeniture ,
privilege ,
proper claim ,
property right ,
reversion ,
right ,
succession ,
title ,
ultimogeniture ,
vested interest ,
vested right Birthright (
1 .)
This word denotes the special privileges and advantages belonging to the first -
born son among the Jews .
He became the priest of the family .
Thus Reuben was the first -
born of the patriarchs ,
and so the priesthood of the tribes belonged to him .
That honour was ,
however ,
transferred by God from Reuben to Levi (
Num .
3 :
12 ,
13 ;
8 :
18 ).
(
2 .)
The first -
born son had allotted to him also a double portion of the paternal inheritance (
Deut .
21 :
15 -
17 ).
Reuben was ,
because of his undutiful conduct ,
deprived of his birth -
right (
Gen .
49 :
4 ;
1 Chr .
5 :
1 ).
Esau transferred his birth -
right to Jacob (
Gen .
25 :
33 ).
(
3 .)
The first -
born inherited the judicial authority of his father ,
whatever it might be (
2 Chr .
21 :
3 ).
By divine appointment ,
however ,
David excluded Adonijah in favour of Solomon .
(
4 .)
The Jews attached a sacred importance to the rank of "
first -
born "
and "
first -
begotten "
as applied to the Messiah (
Rom .
8 :
29 ;
Col .
1 :
18 ;
Heb .
1 :
4 -
6 ).
As first -
born he has an inheritance superior to his brethren ,
and is the alone true priest .
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