Female
נְקֵבָהStrong’s H5347neqevah (ne-qe-vah)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neqevah is the Hebrew word usually translated “female”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Meaning
- Femalewoman, female child · female animal
How it's translated
- a female 8
- and female 6
- female 3
- and of the female 3
- for female 1
- and for the female 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 12
- Genesis 6
- Numbers 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 5:2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 6:19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
- Genesis 7:3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- Genesis 7:9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
- Genesis 7:16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
- Leviticus 3:1And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
נְקֵבָה neqevah · female
1) female 1a) woman, female child 1b) female animal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “female” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FE'MALE, noun
[Latin femella. See Feminine.]
- Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young.
- Among plants, that which produces fruit; that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers.
All definitions and other forms of “female”
FE'MALE, adjective
- Noting the sex which produces young; not male; as a female bee.
- Pertaining to females; as a female hand or heart; female tenderness.
- Feminine; soft; delicate; weak.
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.