firstfruit
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English firste fruyt, equivalent to first + fruit.
Noun
editfirstfruit (plural firstfruits)
- An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.
- The first growth, allegory for the first people to receive the message.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 11:16:
- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- Ceremony in Southern Africa, notably among the Zulu and Swazi peoples, in which the paramount chief is the first to eat from the new harvest.
Translations
editoffering of the first of a harvest