This word comes from the name of Bath-shua.
Definition
from H1129 (as feminine of H1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Traditional renderings: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, × first, × old, owl, town, village.
Traditional renderings: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, × first, × old, owl, town, village.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
586 total
- Ruth 2:2בִתִּֽי׃ · my daughterAnd Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
- Ruth 2:8בִּתִּ֗י · my daughterThen Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
- Ruth 2:22בִּתִּ֗י · My daughterAnd Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”
- Ruth 3:1בִּתִּ֞י · My daughterOne day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
- Ruth 3:10בִּתִּ֔י · my daughterThen Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
- Ruth 3:11בִּתִּי֙ · my daughterAnd now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
- Ruth 3:16בִּתִּ֑י · my daughterWhen Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.
- Ruth 3:18בִתִּ֔י · my daughter“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
- 1 Samuel 1:4וּבְנוֹתֶ֖יהָ · and daughtersAnd whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
- 1 Samuel 1:16בַּת־ · womanDo not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
- 1 Samuel 2:21בָנ֑וֹת · daughtersSo the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 8:13בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם · your daughtersAnd he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
- 1 Samuel 14:49בְנֹתָ֔יו · daughtersNow the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
- 1 Samuel 14:50בַּת־ · daughterHis wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Saul’s uncle Ner.
- 1 Samuel 17:25בִּתּוֹ֙ · his daughter in marriageNow the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
- 1 Samuel 18:17בִתִּ֨י · daughterThen Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
- 1 Samuel 18:19בַּת־ · daughterSo when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
- 1 Samuel 18:20בַּת־ · daughterNow Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
- 1 Samuel 18:27בִּתּ֖וֹ · his daughterDavid and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
- 1 Samuel 18:28בַּת־ · daughterWhen Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
- 1 Samuel 25:44בִּתּ֖וֹ · his daughterBut Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
- 1 Samuel 30:3וּבְנֹתֵיהֶ֖ם · and daughtersWhen David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
- 1 Samuel 30:6בְּנֹתָ֑יו · daughtersAnd David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
- 1 Samuel 30:19וּבָנוֹת֙ · or daughterNothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
- 2 Samuel 1:20 (2×)בְּנ֣וֹת · the daughters; בְּנ֥וֹת · and the daughtersTell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
- 2 Samuel 1:24בְּנוֹת֙ · O daughtersO daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
- 2 Samuel 3:3בַּת־ · daughter…his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
- 2 Samuel 3:7בַת־ · the daughterNow Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
- 2 Samuel 3:13בַּת־ · daughter“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
- 2 Samuel 5:13וּבָנֽוֹת׃ · and daughtersAfter he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
- 2 Samuel 6:16בַּת־ · daughterAs the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
- 2 Samuel 6:20בַּת־ · daughterWhen David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”
- 2 Samuel 6:23בַּת־ · the daughterAnd Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
- 2 Samuel 11:3בַּת־ · the daughterSo David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
- 2 Samuel 12:3כְּבַֽת׃ · like a daughter…but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
- 2 Samuel 13:18בְנוֹת־ · daughtersSo Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
- 2 Samuel 14:27וּבַ֥ת · daughterThree sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
- 2 Samuel 17:25בַּת־ · the daughterAbsalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
- 2 Samuel 19:5וּבְנֹתֶ֔יךָ · and daughtersThen Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
- 2 Samuel 21:8 (2×)בַת־ · daughter; בַּת־ · daughterBut the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
- 2 Samuel 21:10בַת־ · the daughterAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- 2 Samuel 21:11בַת־ · daughterWhen David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
- 1 Kings 3:1בַּת־ · daughterLater, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 4:11בַּת־ · a daughterBen-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);
- 1 Kings 4:15בַּת־ · a daughterAhimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);
- 1 Kings 7:8לְבַת־ · daughterAnd the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
- 1 Kings 9:16לְבִתּ֖וֹ · to his daughterPharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
- 1 Kings 9:24בַּת־ · daughterAs soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.