bat · daughter

What it means

bat (בַּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “daughter”.

Also granddaughter. In the plural, also the women of a people or place ("daughters of Canaan"); "daughter of Zion" stands for a city and its people.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
2. The young women of a people.
3. A city or its people: "daughter Zion".
4. Literally "the daughters": small places that depend on a city.
5. Literally "daughter" in set phrases, like the center of the eye or an animal's age.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Daughter. BDB notes that it is used as widely as the other kinship words, literally and figuratively. It is the feminine of בֵּן, “son”.

• The daughter of a father or a mother Genesis 24:24Ruth 3:10
• In the plural, the women of a people: “the daughters of the Canaanites” Genesis 24:3
• “The daughter of Zion”: the city, named as a daughter Isaiah 1:8
• The towns that depend on a city, called “its daughters” Joshua 15:45
• In fixed expressions: “a year old” (literally “daughter of a year”); the ostrich Leviticus 14:10Leviticus 11:16

Historical and cultural background

The inheritance law of Numbers 27:8 provides that, if a man dies with no son, his inheritance passes “to his daughter”.

How we translate it

“Daughter” 282 times, “daughters” 242; “towns” 22, “villages” 16 and “settlements” 6; “ostriches” 6. “The daughter of Zion” is left as it is, with a note, because the image belongs to the original. When the word names the towns of a city, or is part of an age (“a year old”) or of the name of a bird, it is translated by its sense.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• daughter ×282
• daughters ×242
• towns ×22
• villages ×16
• ostriches ×6
• settlements ×6
• girls ×2
• ostrich ×2
• pupil ×2
• year old ×2
• others ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×110
• Exodus×23
• Leviticus×23
• Numbers×26
• Deuteronomy×22
• Joshua×16
• Judges×27
• Ruth×11
• 1 Samuel×16
• 2 Samuel×20
• 1 Kings×11
• 2 Kings×17
• 1 Chronicles×29
• 2 Chronicles×27
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×18
• Esther×5
• Job×6
• Psalms×12
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×11
• Isaiah×27
• Jeremiah×41
• Lamentations×22
• Ezekiel×37
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×4
• Joel×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×8
• Zephaniah×3
• Zechariah×4
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 5:4

  And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:7

  And Seth lived after he fathered Enosh eight hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:10

  And Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:13

  And Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:16

  And Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared eight hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:19

  And Jared lived after he fathered Enoch eight hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:22

  And Enoch walked with Elohim after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:26

  And Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:30

  And Lamech lived after he fathered Noah five hundred and ninety-five years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 6:1

  And it happened, when human beings began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

• Genesis 6:2

  that the sons of Elohim saw that the daughters of human beings were beautiful; and they took for themselves wives from all whom they chose.

• Genesis 6:4

  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim went in to the daughters of human beings and they bore children to them; they were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

• Genesis 11:11

  After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:13

  After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:15

  After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:17

  After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:19

  After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:21

  After he fathered Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:23

  After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:25

  After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:29

  Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

• Genesis 17:17

  Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a son be born to one who is a hundred years old? And Sarah, will she, at ninety years, give birth?”

• Genesis 19:8

  Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not do anything, for that is why they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

• Genesis 19:12

  Then the men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place,

• Genesis 19:14

  So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for YHWH is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to be joking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

• Genesis 19:15

  As the dawn came up, the messengers urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.”

• Genesis 19:16

  But he lingered; so the men seized his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hand of his two daughters, because of YHWH’s compassion for him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

• Genesis 19:30

  Lot went up from Zoar and lived on the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to live in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

• Genesis 19:36

  Thus both daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

• Genesis 20:12

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

• Genesis 24:3

  and I will make you swear by YHWH, the Elohim of the heavens and the Elohim of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

• Genesis 24:13

  Look, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

• Genesis 24:23

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

• Genesis 24:24

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

• Genesis 24:37

  My lord made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;

• Genesis 24:47

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

• Genesis 24:48

  And I bowed my head and bowed down to YHWH, and I blessed YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who had led me on a true way to take the daughter of my lord’s brother for his son.

• Genesis 25:20

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

• Genesis 26:34

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is life to me?”

And 549 more times.