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<li> The "daughters of music" (&nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:4 ) are singing women. <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Daughter'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/d/daughter.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> (בִּת, bath, for בֶּנֶת, fem. of בֵּן, son; θυγατήρ ), a word used in Scripture in a variety of senses, some of which are unknown to our own language, or have only become known through familiarity with scriptural forms of speech. (See [[Ben]])-. Besides its usual and proper sense of </p> <p> '''(1.)''' a daughter, born or adopted, we find it used to designate </p> <p> '''(2.)''' a Uterine sister, niece, or any female descendant (&nbsp;Genesis 20:12; &nbsp;Genesis 24:48; &nbsp;Genesis 28:6; &nbsp;Genesis 36:2; &nbsp;Numbers 25:1; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 23:17). </p> <p> '''(3.)''' Women, as natives, residents, or professing the religion of certain places, as "the daughter of Zion" (&nbsp;Isaiah 3:16); "daughters of the Philistines" (&nbsp;2 Samuel 1:20); "daughter of a strange god" (&nbsp;Malachi 2:11); daughters of men," i.e. carnal women (&nbsp;Genesis 6:2), etc. </p> <p> '''(4.)''' Metaphorically small towns are called daughters of neighboring large cities — metropoles, or mother cities — to which they belonged or from which they were derived, as "Heshbon and all the daughters [''Auth. Vers. Villages'' ] thereof" (&nbsp;Numbers 21:25); so [[Tyre]] is called the daughter of [[Sidon]] (&nbsp;Isaiah 22:12), as having been originally a colony from thence; and hence also the town of [[Abel]] is called "a mother in Israel" (&nbsp;2 Samuel 20:19); and [[Gath]] is in one place (comp. &nbsp;2 Samuel 7:1; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 18:1) called Gath- Ammah, or Gath the mother town, metropolis, to distinguish it from its own dependencies, or from another place called Gath. (See [[Village]]). Comp. other instances in &nbsp;Numbers 21:32; &nbsp;Judges 11:26; &nbsp;Joshua 15:45, etc. </p> <p> '''(5.)''' The people collectively of any place, the name of which is given, as "the daughter (i.e. the people) of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee" (&nbsp;Isaiah 37:22; see also &nbsp;Psalms 45:13; &nbsp;Psalms 137:8; &nbsp;Isaiah 10:30; &nbsp;Jeremiah 46:19; &nbsp;Lamentations 4:22; &nbsp;Zechariah 9:9). This metaphor is illustrated by the almost universal custom of representing towns under the figure of a woman. </p> <p> '''(6.)''' The word "daughter," followed by a numeral, indicates a woman of the age indicated by the numeral, as when [[Sarah]] (in the original) is called "the daughter of ninety years" (&nbsp;Genesis 17:17). </p> <p> '''(7.)''' The word "daughter" is also applied to the produce of animals, trees, or plants. Thus, "daughter of the she-ostrich," (supposed) for "female ostrich" (&nbsp;Leviticus 11:16); [[Joseph]] is called "a fruitful bough whose daughters (branches) run over the wall" (&nbsp;Genesis 49:22). See further in [[Gesenius]] and Furst, s.v. בת . </p> <p> The condition of daughters, that is, of young women, in the East, their employments, duties, etc., may be gathered from various parts of Scripture, and seems to have borne but little resemblance to that of young women of respectable parentage among ourselves. [[Rebekah]] drew and fetched water; Rachel kept sheep, as did the daughters of Jethro, though he was a priest, or a prince, of Midian. They superintended and performed domestic services for the family; Tamar, though a king's daughter, baked bread; and the same of others. We have the same occupations for the daughters of princes in the ancient poets, of which [[Homer]] is an unquestionable evidence. (See [[Child]]); (See [[Education]]); (See [[Woman]]); (See [[Marriage]]). The original terms rendered "daughter-in-law" are in the Hebrews כִּלָּה ''Kallah''' ; Sept. and New Test. νύμφη, both literally meaning a bride (as elsewhere rendered), and applied to a son's wife. </p>

<p> '''''dô´tẽr''''' ( בּת , <i> '''''bath''''' </i> ; θυγάτηρ , <i> '''''thugátēr''''' </i> ): Used in [[Scriptures]] in several more or less distinct senses: ( <i> a </i> ) for daughter in the ordinary, literal sense (&nbsp;Genesis 46:25; &nbsp;Exodus 1:16 ); ( <i> b </i> ) daughter-in-law (Rth 2:2); ( <i> c </i> ) grand-daughter or other female descendant (Ex 21; &nbsp;Luke 1:5; &nbsp;Luke 13:16 ); ( <i> d </i> ) The women of a country, or of a place, taken collectively (&nbsp;Luke 23:28 ), of a particular religion (&nbsp;Malachi 2:11 ); ( <i> e </i> ) all the population of a place, taken collectively, especially in [[Prophets]] and poetic books (&nbsp;Psalm 9:14; &nbsp;Isaiah 23:10; &nbsp;Jeremiah 46:24; &nbsp;Matthew 21:5 ); ( <i> f </i> ) used in familiar address, "Daughter, be of good comfort" (&nbsp;Matthew 9:22 the King James Version; &nbsp; Mark 5:34; &nbsp;Luke 8:48 ); ( <i> g </i> ) women in general (&nbsp;Proverbs 31:29 ); ( <i> h </i> ) The personification of towns or cities, as of the female sex (&nbsp;Isaiah 47:1; &nbsp;Ezekiel 16:44 , &nbsp;Ezekiel 16:46; compare &nbsp;Nahum 3:4 , &nbsp;Nahum 3:7 ), especially of dependent towns and villages (&nbsp;Psalm 48:11; &nbsp;Numbers 21:25 margin; &nbsp; Judges 1:27 margin); ( <i> i </i> ) in [[Hebrew]] idiom for person or thing belonging to or having the characteristics of that with which it is joined, as "daughter of ninety years," of Sarah, ninety years old (&nbsp;Genesis 17:17 ); "daughters of music," singing birds, or singing women (&nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:4 ); daughters of a tree, i.e. branches; daughter of the eye, i.e. the pupil. </p> <p> Daughters were not so highly prized as sons, not being usually mentioned by name. A father might sometimes sell his daughter as bondwoman (&nbsp;Exodus 21:7 ); though not to a foreigner (&nbsp;Exodus 21:8 ); daughters might sometimes inherit as did sons, but could not take the inheritance outside of the tribe (&nbsp;Numbers 36:1-12 ). </p>