Usage of "first-born"

Russian

Eldest child.

Usage of first-born in English

As their god said to Moses: 'Israel is my son, my first-born.' 
 Julian 

I said I doubted if anyone's first-born child was ever more welcome. 
 I capture the castle 

For, indeed, they are the first-born, the natural branches, and the like. 
 Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 

Thus the male and female sex of the first-born twins is identified. 
 Algonquin Legends of New England 

For the first-born brother was priest and lord of all the rest. 
 Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Po... 

When she has several grown-up children the first-born will be the favorite. 
 A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day 

Thus each man brought to the temple the first-born of his flock. 
 The Makers and Teachers of Judaism / From the Fall of Jerusalem ... 

Grey matter volume was smaller in second-born twins compared with first-born twins. 
 Pubmed 

You cannot realize what this first-born of promise means to Little Rivers. 
 Over the Pass 

The eminent novelist's encomium had aroused the artist's pride in his first-born. 
 Jaffery 

Eastward of Jordan Leah's first-born had a similar fate, although somewhat later. 
 Prolegomena to the History of Israel 

They had called her Rose, fatuously, as parents do their first-born girl. 
 Cheerful—By Request 

You are 'my first-born, my might and the beginning of my strength.' 
 Grandmother Elsie 

Double-minded men, we, like Jacob's first-born, are unstable in all our ways. 
 Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) 

Anyway, it's my first-born story, and I'll defend it with my life. 
 Told in a French Garden / August, 1914 

Three months since, and I hoped my first-born would be a king! 
 The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 

Frequent collocations

Translations for first-born

Russian

First-born through the time

Meanings of first-born in English