265 occurrences

'Daughter' in the Bible

Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Verse ConceptsNamed WivesFathers And Daughters

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGrandchildrenAbraham, Calling And LifeLiving In The LandLand Promised To Israel

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSistersOther WivesSiblingsFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughterssisterhoodsarah

Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah—daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—coming with a jug on her shoulder.

Verse ConceptsShouldersequipping, physicalWater ContainersWhile Still SpeakingCarrying Other Loads

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Staying TemporarilyFathers And Daughters

She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

Verse ConceptsThis Is Me

Then I asked her: Whose daughter are you? She responded, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Verse ConceptsJewelleryWho Is This?This Is Me

Then I bowed down, worshiped the Lord, and praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

Verse ConceptsBowing Heads Before GodGod Has GuidedBlessed Be God!

Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsNamed Sisters

When Esau was 40 years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsPolygamy

so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyNamed Sisters

“Is he well?” Jacob asked.“Yes,” they said, “and here is his daughter Rachel, coming with his sheep.”

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep, he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

Verse ConceptsRollingPossessing Sheep

That evening, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenExchange Of Individuals

Laban answered, “It is not the custom in this place to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCustom

And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningPolygamyMan's Work Finished

And Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.

Verse ConceptsMaids

Later, Leah bore a daughter and named her Dinah.

Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

Verse ConceptsVisitingPeople Visiting

He became infatuated with Dinah, daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingHeart, HumanTendernessClinging To PeopleGentle WordsMen And Women Who LovedThe Love Of Women

Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfRapeIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Polluted

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident and were deeply grieved and angry. For Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldSexual Sin, Nature OfSorrowRapeNamed People Angry With Others

Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem is strongly attracted to your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedGiving In Marriagehumor

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

Verse ConceptsSetting Out

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.

Verse ConceptsHappiness

Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamahdaughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon:She bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah to Edom.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah:Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.These are the chiefs of Esau’s wife Oholibamahdaughter of Anah.

These are the children of Anah:Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadar became king in his place.His city was Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabeldaughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsNamed WivesRulers Of Edom

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningMarital SexMarital Sex Between

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to the sheepshearers.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessSheep ShearingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsMourning The Death Of Others

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me?”

Verse ConceptsDaughters In LawNot Recognising PeopleWages Of A Prostitute

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”“Bring her out!” Judah said. “Let her be burned to death!”

Verse ConceptsProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSexual Sin, Nature OfTwo To Four MonthsBurning PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual SinTelling Of People's Situations

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah and gave him a wife, Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningChanged NamesPeople Renaming PeopleAuthority Delegated To People

Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.

Verse ConceptsTwo Sons

These were Leah’s sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons: 33.

Verse ConceptsThirty Some

These were the sons of Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—that she bore to Jacob: 16 persons.

Verse ConceptsSixteen

Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. They were born to him by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, a priest at On.

Verse ConceptsOccupations

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore to Jacob: seven persons.

Verse ConceptsSeven People

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

Verse ConceptsInfantsSuffering, Nature OfInfanticideKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesBirthKilling Israelites

Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofCommands, in OTKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesKilling IsraelitesThe King's Orders

Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it.

Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?”

Verse ConceptsNursesNamed Sisters

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

Verse ConceptsNursesbaby

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofMoses, Life OfSonsGrowing UpAdoptionBringing People Out Of Other PlacesPeople With Apt Names

Aaron married Elisheba,daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon.She bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyNamed Sisters

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestIndustryStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And WomenSabbaths InstitutedStrangers in israel

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsdaughtersPeople Freeing Slavessales

If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.

Verse ConceptsRegulations For Men And Women

“When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsSacrifices At The DoorwayAnimals At Specific Ages

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.

Verse ConceptsSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredSiblingsSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, because it will shame your family.

Verse ConceptsIncestForbidden Sexual RelationshipsDaughters In LawNakedness Uncovered

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by your father; she is your sister.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsDaughters In LawNakedness UncoveredSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredsexSex Before MarriageSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter Relationships

“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersLove, In RelationshipsProstitutionRightsSexual Sin, Nature OfSexualityHarlotsProvokingTattoos Being Okwhores

If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is on their own hands.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsDaughters In LawDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

If a man marries his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his punishment.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceIncurring GuiltSexual Sin, Nature OfSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredDeath Penalty For Sexual SinMothers And Daughters

except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

Verse ConceptsHonouring Parents

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCremationAdulterersProfanityProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfHarlotsBurning Peoplebranding

If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.

But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfGod, The LordProfaning God's NameCursing God

The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian.

For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”

Verse ConceptsSeducersharassment

And the name of Asher’s daughter was Serah.

Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

Verse ConceptsReal EstateLack Of Sons

These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.

Verse ConceptsRules About Young PeopleFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalIntermarriageFathers And Daughters

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the foreigner who lives within your gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

You must eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do,

Verse ConceptsEating Before GodEating Drinking And Rejoicing

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

Rejoice during your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates.

Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing

No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,

Verse ConceptsAstrologyChild sacrificeOccultismHuman SacrificesNecromancyAvoid SorcerySorceryDrugsmagicwitchespracticepsychicsOccultism Being Forbidden

The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGiving In MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanMarriage KjvFathers And Daughters

‘The one who sleeps with his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter is cursed.’And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Verse ConceptsSistersAmenSiblings

The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,

Verse ConceptsPeople Opposed

and Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife to the one who strikes down and captures Kiriath-sepher.”

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attacked

So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother, Kenaz, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as a wife.

Caleb said, “Whoever strikes down and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife.”

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Attacked

So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s youngest brother, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as his wife.

When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter besides her.

Verse ConceptsdanceDancingLeisure, And PastimesMusical Instruments, types ofVirginChildren, Good Examples OfThe Only ChildMeeting PeopleMusic To CelebrateOnly Child Of Peopleprepping

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have devastated me! You have brought great misery on me. I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back.”

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesThose Who Tore Clothes

that four days each year the young women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

Verse ConceptsLamentingFour Or Five Days

Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine now. Use them and do whatever you want to them. But don’t do this horrible thing to this man.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity

The men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah: “None of us will give his daughter to a Benjaminite in marriage.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersWives For BenjaminPeople Bound By Oaths

So Naomi came back from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home

Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone who allows me to?”Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

Verse ConceptsGleaning

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.

Verse ConceptsLiving Together

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, who has not forsaken his kindness to the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our family redeemers.”

Verse ConceptsKindnessKinsman redeemerRedemption, In Everyday LifeUnkindnessLife And DeathMay God Bless!

So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

Verse ConceptsGood Activity

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

θυγάτριον 
Thugatrion 
Usage: 2

כּלּה 
Kallah 
Usage: 34

θυγάτηρ 
Thugater 
Usage: 19

νύμφη 
Numphe 
Usage: 5

τέκνον 
Teknon 
Usage: 69

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