firstfruits

firstfruits is the plural of firstfruit.

firstfruits is the alternative form of first fruits.

Meaning of firstfruit

firstfruit (plural firstfruits)

An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.
The first growth, allegory for the first people to receive the message.
- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 11:16
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.

first fruits pl (plural only)

(plural, plural-only) The first part of a harvest; sometimes made into an offering
- And Pitheus alſo had giuen it out abroad, that he was begotten of Neptune, becauſe the TROEZENIANS haue this god in great veneration, and doe worſhip him as patron and protector of their citie, making offerings to him of their firſt fruits: and they haue for the marke and ſtamp of their money, the...1595, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 3
(plural, plural-only) The first profits from an undertaking

From Middle English frystefruytes, equivalent to first + fruits.

What is firstfruits the plural of?: Firstfruits is the plural of firstfruit.

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