First-born meaning

Some said that babies recognized their mother's voice when they were first born because they had listened to them in the womb.

50-53), and they are taken by Yahweh as a surrogate for the male first-born of Israel (iii.

If Pharaoh still remains obdurate his first-born is threatened (iv.

Proserpine herself was commonly known as the daughter (Core), sometimes as the first-born.

In the highest hell rules alone the grisly king Sh'dum, "the warrior"; in the storey immediately beneath is Giv, "the great"; and in the lowest is Krun or Karkum, the oldest and most powerful of all, commonly called "the great mountain of flesh" (Third rabba d'besra), but also "the first-born of darkness."