בַּת
bath · bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1129 (בָּנָה) (as feminine of H1121 (בֵּן));
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, [idiom] first, [idiom] old, [phrase] owl, town, village.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the mark, the covenant sign
The house, what is within of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בַּת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
588 occurrences · 588 OT · 0 NT · 246 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the daughter94 · 24%
- daughter46 · 12%
- and daughters26 · 7%
- daughters26 · 7%
- of the daughter22 · 6%
- and her towns19 · 5%
- o daughter18 · 5%
- of the daughters17 · 4%
- his daughter15 · 4%
- and their daughters13 · 3%
- and thy daughters12 · 3%
- the daughters9 · 2%
- and her daughters9 · 2%
- my daughter8 · 2%
- your daughters7 · 2%
- their daughters6 · 2%
- and his daughters6 · 2%
- and your daughters5 · 1%
- with the towns5 · 1%
- and the daughter5 · 1%
- my daughters5 · 1%
- and in the villages5 · 1%
- but daughters4 · 1%
- a daughter4 · 1%
- unto his daughter3 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis110
- Exodus23
- Leviticus23
- Numbers26
- Deuteronomy22
- Joshua16
- Judges27
- Ruth11
- 1 Samuel16
- 2 Samuel20
- 1 Kings11
- 2 Kings17
- 1 Chronicles29
- 2 Chronicles27
- Ezra4
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.