Daughter

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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.


This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

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