nekeva · female

What it means

nekeva (נְקֵבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “female”.

A woman, or a female animal.

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 person or animal of the female sex.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• female ×21
• woman ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 1:27

  And Elohim created the human being in his image; in the image of Elohim he created him; male and female he created them.

• Genesis 5:2

  Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and called their name “Human Being” in the day they were created.

• Genesis 6:19

  And of every living thing, of all flesh, two of every kind you shall bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

• Genesis 7:3

  also of the birds of the sky seven and seven, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

• Genesis 7:9

  two and two they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noah.

• Genesis 7:16

  And those that came, male and female of all flesh, came as Elohim had commanded him; and YHWH shut the door behind him.

• Leviticus 3:1

  And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace, if he presents it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall present it without defect before YHWH.

• Leviticus 3:6

  And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace to YHWH is from the flock, male or female, he shall present it without defect.

• Leviticus 4:28

  or his sin that he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a female goat, without defect, for his sin that he has committed.

• Leviticus 4:32

  And if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

• Leviticus 5:6

  He shall bring his guilt offering to YHWH for his sin that he has committed: a female from the flock, a ewe lamb or a female goat, as a sin offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him for his sin.

• Leviticus 12:5

  But if she gives birth to a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain sixty days and six days in the blood of purification.

• Leviticus 12:7

  He shall present it before YHWH and make expiation for her, and she will be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the instruction for her who gives birth to a male or a female.

• Leviticus 15:33

  and for the woman who is ill with her menstruation, and for the one who has his discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.

• Leviticus 27:4

  And if it is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.

• Leviticus 27:5

  And if from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Leviticus 27:6

  And if from a month old up to five years old, the valuation of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

• Leviticus 27:7

  And if from sixty years old and upward, if a male, the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Numbers 5:3

  Both male and female you shall send out; outside the camp you shall send them, so that they do not make unclean their camps, in the midst of which I dwell.”

• Numbers 31:15

  Moses said to them, “Have you let live every female?

• Deuteronomy 4:16

  so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any idol, the representation of male or female,

• Jeremiah 31:22

  How long will you wander here and there, faithless daughter? For YHWH has created a new thing in the land: a woman will surround a man.”