Topic
Daughter
51 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Ecclesiastes 12:4Easton · Smith · ISBE
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
- Genesis 24:48Easton · Smith
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
- Numbers 21:25Smith · ISBE
And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
- Isaiah 23:12Easton · Smith
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
- Luke 23:28Smith · ISBE
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
- Genesis 6:2Smith
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- Genesis 17:17ISBE
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
- Genesis 20:12Easton
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 28:6Easton
¶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
- Genesis 36:2Nave Used also for granddaughter
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
- Genesis 46:25ISBE
These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
- Genesis 49:22Easton
¶ Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
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- Exodus 1:16 ISBE
- Exodus 21:1–36 ISBE
- Exodus 21:7 ISBE
- Exodus 21:7–10 Nave Sold in concubinage
- Exodus 21:8 ISBE
- Leviticus 20:14 Nave Forbidden to be wife of her mother's husband
- Numbers 27:1–11 Nave Property rights of
- Numbers 36:1–12 ISBE
- Numbers 36:1–13 Nave Property rights of
- Joshua 17:3–6 Nave Property rights of
- Judges 1:12 Nave Given in marriage by parents
- Judges 1:13 Nave Given in marriage by parents
- Judges 1:27 ISBE
- Ruth 2:2 ISBE
- Ruth 4:3 Nave Property rights of
- 1 Samuel 17:25 Nave Given in marriage by parents
- 1 Samuel 18:20 Nave Given in marriage by parents
- 1 Samuel 18:21 Nave Given in marriage by parents
- 2 Samuel 1:20 Easton
- Psalms 9:14 ISBE
- Psalms 48:11 ISBE
- Proverbs 31:29 ISBE
- Isaiah 3:16 Easton
- Isaiah 10:32 Smith
- Isaiah 23:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 37:22 Easton
- Isaiah 47:1 ISBE
- Jeremiah 46:24 ISBE
- Ezekiel 16:44 ISBE
- Ezekiel 16:46 ISBE
- Nahum 3:4 ISBE
- Nahum 3:7 ISBE
- Malachi 2:11 ISBE
- Matthew 9:22 ISBE
- Matthew 21:5 ISBE
- Mark 5:34 ISBE
- Luke 1:5 ISBE
- Luke 8:48 ISBE
- Luke 13:16 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 9 references
This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) 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). (3.) 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). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as “the daughters of Zion” (Isa. 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.) The “daughters of music” (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 7 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 29 references
do'-ter (bath; thugater): Used in Scriptures in several more or less distinct senses:
(a) for daughter in the ordinary, literal sense (Ge 46:25; Ex 1:16);
(b) daughter-in-law (Ru 2:2);
(c) grand-daughter or other female descendant (Ex 21; Lu 1:5; 13:16);
(d) the women of a country, or of a place, taken collectively (Lu 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; Mt 21:5);
(f) used in familiar address, "Daughter, be of good comfort" (Mt 9:22 the King James Version; Mr 5:34; Lu 8:48);
(g) women in general (Pr 31:29);
(h) the personification of towns or cities, as of the female sex (Isa 47:1; Eze 16:44,46; compare Na 3:4,7), especially of dependent towns and villages (Ps 48:11; Nu 21:25 margin; Jud 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 (Ge 17:17); "daughters of music," singing birds, or singing women (Ec 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 (Ex 21:7); though not to a foreigner (Ex 21:8); daughters might sometimes inherit as did sons, but could not take the inheritance outside of the tribe (Nu 36:1-12).
Edward Bagby Pollard
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 12 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Forbidden to be wife of her mother's husband Le 20:14
- → Sold in concubinage Ex 21:7-10
- → Given in marriage by parents Jud 1:12,13; 1Sa 17:25; 18:20,21
- → Property rights of Nu 27:1-11; 36; Jos 17:3-6; Ru 4:3
- → Used also for granddaughter Ge 36:2
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.