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Daughter

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate,

2

A niece or any female descendant (Gen 20:12; 24:48; 28:6).

3

Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, “the daughters of Zion” (Isa 3:16), “daughters of the Philistines” (2 Sam 1:20).

4

Small towns and villages lying around a city are its “daughters,” as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isa 23:12).

5

The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as “the daughters of Zion” (Isa 37:22).

6

The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen 49:22).

7

The “daughters of music” (Eccl 12:4) are singing women.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

do'-ter (bath; thugater): Used in Scriptures in several more or less distinct senses:

(a) for daughter in the ordinary, literal sense (Gen 46:25; Exod 1:16);

(b) daughter-in-law (Ruth 2:2);

(c) grand-daughter or other female descendant (Ruth 21; Luke 1:5; Luke 13:16);

(d) the women of a country, or of a place, taken collectively (Luke 23:28), of a particular religion (Mal 2:11);

(e) all the population of a place, taken collectively, especially in Prophets and poetic books (Ps 9:14; Isa 23:10; Jer 46:24; Matt 21:5);

(f) used in familiar address, "Daughter, be of good comfort" (Matt 9:22 the King James Version; Mark 5:34; Luke 8:48);

(g) women in general (Prov 31:29);

(h) the personification of towns or cities, as of the female sex (Isa 47:1; Ezek 16:44; Ezek 16:46; compare Nah 3:4; Nah 3:7), especially of dependent towns and villages (Ps 48:11; Num 21:25 margin; Judg 1:27 margin);

(i) in Hebrew idiom for person or thing belonging to or having the characteristics of that with which it is joined, as "daughter of ninety years," of Sarah, ninety years old (Gen 17:17); "daughters of music," singing birds, or singing women (Eccl 12:4); daughters of a tree, i. e. branches; daughter of the eye, i. e. the pupil.

Daughters were not so highly prized as sons, not being usually mentioned by name. A father might sometimes sell his daughter as bondwoman (Exod 21:7); though not to a foreigner (Exod 21:8); daughters might sometimes inherit as did sons, but could not take the inheritance outside of the tribe (Num 36:1-12).

Edward Bagby Pollard

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