The meaning of Daughter in the Bible
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)

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

  • A niece or any female descendant (Genesis 20:12; 24:48; 28:6).
  • Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isaiah 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (II Samuel 1:20).
  • 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 (Isaiah 23:12).
  • The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isaiah 37:22).
  • The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Genesis 49:22).
  • The "daughters of music" (Eccl 12:4) are singing women.


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