Hebrew

Daughter

בַּתStrong’s H1323

bat

Appears in 498 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bat is the Hebrew word usually translated “daughter of”, “daughters of” and “daughters”. It appears in 498 verses of the Old Testament.

“And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.”

Daniel 11:6 KJV

Meaning

Daughterdaughter, girl, adopted daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, granddaughters, female child, cousin
Young women, women
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.38.2

How it's translated

daughter of 163
daughters of 37
and daughters 32
and daughters its 29
daughters 23
o daughter of 21
daughter his 20
and daughters your 19

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Genesis 90
Jeremiah 39
Ezekiel 31
Numbers 24
Isaiah 24
Exodus 22

34 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

All 498 verses, by book

Genesis 90: 5:4 5:7 5:10 5:13 5:16 5:19 5:22 5:26 5:30 6:1 6:2 6:4 11:11 11:13 11:15 11:17 11:19 11:21 11:23 11:25 11:29 17:17 19:8 19:12 19:14 19:15 19:16 19:30 19:36 20:12 24:3 24:13 24:23 24:24 24:37 24:47 24:48 25:20 26:34 27:46 28:1 28:2 28:6 28:8 28:9 29:6 29:10 29:16 29:18 29:23 29:24 29:28 29:29 30:13 30:21 31:26 31:28 31:31 31:41 31:43 31:50 31:55 34:1 34:3 34:5 34:7 34:8 34:9 34:16 34:17 34:19 34:21 36:2 36:3 36:6 36:14 36:18 36:25 36:39 37:35 38:2 38:12 41:45 41:50 46:7 46:15 46:18 46:20 46:25 49:22
Exodus 22: 1:16 1:22 2:1 2:5 2:7 2:8 2:9 2:10 2:16 2:20 2:21 3:22 6:23 6:25 10:9 20:10 21:4 21:7 21:9 21:31 32:2 34:16
Leviticus 16: 10:14 11:16 12:6 14:10 18:9 18:10 18:11 18:17 19:29 20:17 21:2 21:9 22:12 22:13 24:11 26:29
Numbers 24: 6:14 15:27 18:11 18:19 21:25 21:29 21:32 25:1 25:15 25:18 26:33 26:46 26:59 27:1 27:7 27:8 27:9 30:16 32:42 36:2 36:6 36:8 36:10 36:11
Deuteronomy 19: 5:14 7:3 12:12 12:18 12:31 13:6 14:15 16:11 16:14 18:10 22:16 22:17 23:17 27:22 28:32 28:41 28:53 28:56 32:19
Joshua 9: 7:24 15:16 15:17 15:45 15:47 17:3 17:6 17:11 17:16
Judges 17: 1:12 1:13 1:27 3:6 11:26 11:34 11:35 11:40 12:9 14:1 14:2 14:3 19:24 21:1 21:7 21:18 21:21
Ruth 11: 1:11 1:12 1:13 2:2 2:8 2:22 3:1 3:10 3:11 3:16 3:18
1 Samuel 16: 1:4 1:16 2:21 8:13 14:49 14:50 17:25 18:17 18:19 18:20 18:27 18:28 25:44 30:3 30:6 30:19
2 Samuel 18: 1:20 1:24 3:3 3:7 3:13 5:13 6:16 6:20 6:23 11:3 12:3 13:18 14:27 17:25 19:5 21:8 21:10 21:11
1 Kings 11: 3:1 4:11 4:15 7:8 9:16 9:24 11:1 15:2 15:10 16:31 22:42
2 Kings 16: 8:18 8:26 9:34 11:2 14:9 15:33 17:17 18:2 19:21 21:19 22:1 23:10 23:31 23:36 24:8 24:18
1 Chronicles 22: 1:50 2:3 2:21 2:23 2:34 2:35 2:49 3:2 3:5 4:18 4:27 5:16 7:15 7:24 7:28 7:29 8:12 14:3 15:29 18:1 23:22 25:5
2 Chronicles 20: 2:14 8:11 11:18 11:20 11:21 13:2 13:19 13:21 20:31 21:6 22:2 22:11 24:3 25:18 27:1 28:8 28:18 29:1 29:9 31:18
Ezra 3: 2:61 9:2 9:12
Nehemiah 14: 3:12 4:14 5:2 5:5 6:18 7:63 10:28 10:30 11:25 11:27 11:28 11:30 11:31 13:25
Esther 3: 2:7 2:15 9:29
Job 6: 1:2 1:13 1:18 30:29 42:13 42:15
Psalms 12: 9:14 17:8 45:9 45:10 45:12 45:13 48:11 97:8 106:37 106:38 137:8 144:12
Proverbs 2: 30:15 31:29
Ecclesiastes 1: 12:4
Song of Solomon 11: 1:5 2:2 2:7 3:5 3:10 3:11 5:8 5:16 6:9 7:1 8:4
Isaiah 24: 1:8 3:16 3:17 4:4 10:30 10:32 13:21 16:1 16:2 22:4 23:10 23:12 32:9 34:13 37:22 43:6 43:20 47:1 47:5 49:22 52:2 56:5 60:4 62:11
Jeremiah 39: 3:24 4:11 4:31 5:17 6:2 6:23 6:26 7:31 8:11 8:19 8:21 8:22 9:1 9:7 9:20 11:22 14:16 14:17 16:2 16:3 19:9 29:6 31:22 32:35 35:8 41:10 43:6 46:11 46:19 46:24 48:18 48:46 49:2 49:3 49:4 50:39 50:42 51:33 52:1
Lamentations 19: 1:6 1:15 2:1 2:2 2:4 2:5 2:8 2:10 2:11 2:13 2:15 2:18 3:48 3:51 4:3 4:6 4:10 4:21 4:22
Ezekiel 31: 13:17 14:16 14:18 14:20 14:22 16:20 16:27 16:44 16:45 16:46 16:48 16:49 16:53 16:55 16:57 16:61 22:11 23:2 23:4 23:10 23:25 23:47 24:21 24:25 26:6 26:8 27:6 30:18 32:16 32:18 44:25
Daniel 2: 11:6 11:17
Hosea 4: 1:3 1:6 4:13 4:14
Joel 2: 2:28 3:8
Amos 1: 7:17
Micah 7: 1:8 1:13 4:8 4:10 4:13 5:1 7:6
Zephaniah 2: 3:10 3:14
Zechariah 3: 2:7 2:10 9:9
Malachi 1: 2:11

Hebrew dictionary

בַּת bat · daughter

: daughter 1) daughter 1a) daughter, girl, adopted daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, granddaughters, female child, cousin 1a1) as polite address 1a2) as designation of women of a particular place 2) young women, women 1a3) as personification 1a4) daughter-villages 1a5) description of character Also means: bat (בַּת ": village" H1323H)

בַּת bat · Bath (Shua)

A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.38.2; daughter of: Shua (H7770); married to Judah (H3063); mother of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209) and Shelah (H7956) the wife of Uriah whom David had murdered, having had adulterous relations with her; subsequently wife of David and mother of Solomon, Shimea, Shobab, and Nathan (alternate spelling to 'Bathsheba')

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “daughter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DAUGHTER, noun

The female offspring of a man or woman; a female child of any age.
A daughter in law; a son's wife. Ruth 3:1
A woman; plural female inhabitants.“Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land” Genesis 34:1
A female descendant; lineage of females.

All definitions

The female penitent of a confessor.“Daughter, be of good comfort” Matthew 9:22

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.