בַּת
daughter
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Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
24 verses where H1323 appears in the Construct state in the Book of Ezekiel. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 13:17 בְּנ֣וֹת n c fp cs You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against them,
- Ezekiel 16:20 בְּנוֹתַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 2fs Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter,
- Ezekiel 16:27 בְּנ֣וֹת n c fp cs See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
- Ezekiel 16:44 בִּתָּֽ/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Ezekiel 16:45 בַּת n c fs cs You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:46 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֔י/הָ וּ/בְנוֹתֶֽי/הָ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:48 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֑י/הָ וּ/בְנוֹתָֽיִ/ךְ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2fs As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:49 וְ/לִ/בְנוֹתֶ֔י/הָ conj + prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:53 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֔י/הָ וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֑י/הָ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
- Ezekiel 16:55 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֨י/הָ֙ וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֔י/הָ וּ/בְנוֹתַ֔יִ/ךְ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2fs Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
- Ezekiel 16:57 בְּנוֹת בְּנ֣וֹת n c fp cs n c fp cs before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.
- Ezekiel 22:11 בַת n c fs cs One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
- Ezekiel 23:2 בְּנ֥וֹת n c fp cs Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
- Ezekiel 23:10 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֨י/הָ֙ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
- Ezekiel 23:25 וּ/בְנוֹתַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2fs I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 23:47 וּ/בְנֽוֹתֵי/הֶם֙ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
- Ezekiel 24:21 וּ/בְנֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֛ם conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 24:25 וּ/בְנוֹתֵי/הֶֽם conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
- Ezekiel 26:6 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֨י/הָ֙ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 26:8 בְּנוֹתַ֥יִ/ךְ n c fp cs + sfx pers 2fs He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
- Ezekiel 27:6 בַּת n c fs cs Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.
- Ezekiel 30:18 וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֖י/הָ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
- Ezekiel 32:16 בְּנ֥וֹת n c fp cs This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 32:18 וּ/בְנ֨וֹת conj + n c fp cs Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
About this entry
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בת (bath) is a Hebrew word most often rendered “daughter.” It first appears in Genesis 5:4. It turns up in 498 verses across 34 books, a common footprint. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. From the same root come בנה, אבן and בית. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H1323 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 498
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 498 distinct verses.
- 34 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 34 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #82
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 82 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 498 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 498 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 201 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 171 verses · 34%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 126 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Daughter 250×, Daughters 205×, Towns 32×
- American Standard Version†: Daughter 196×, Daughters 180×, 's daughter 30×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Daughter 242×, Daughters 205×, Villages 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Daughters 217×, Daughter of 167×, Daughter 90×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1323 across 588† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 49 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1323 across 587† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 84 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1323 across 551† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 29 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1323 across 595† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 28 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
18 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 18 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
בת I daughter (= בַּנְתְּ from בן
- 1. daughter, female child, born of a woman Gn 30:21; 34:1 Ex 1:16, 22; 21:4 Lv 12:6 Ho 1:6 cf. Gn 20:12 Lv 18:9 Dt 27:22 +; begotten by a man Gn 5:4, 7, 10; 11:11, 13, 15 cf. Gn 11:29; 19:8; 20:12; 28:2 Lv 19:9 Dt 27:22 +; often ‖ בֵּן son Gn 5:4, 7 + (v. בֵּן); cf. in allegory of Jehoash 2 K 14:9 = 2 Ch 25:18; note especially בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם i.e. human women Gn 6:2, 4; בִּתְּךָ הַקְּטַנָּה thy younger daughter Gn 29:18 (cf. הַצְּעִירָה v 26 opp. הַבְּכִירָה); בִּתִּי הַגְּדוֹלָה my eldest daughter 1 S 18:17; בַּת־(הַ)מֶּלֶךְ = princess 2 Ch 22:11 2 K 9:34 Dn 11:6 cf. 2 S 13:18 Je 41:10; 43:6 ψ 45:10; cf. as term of praise בַּת־נָדִיב Ct 7:2; in partic. e.g. Genesis 30:21
- a. girl called בִּתֵּנוּ by father and brothers Gn 34:17 cf. בִּתְּכֶם v 8. e.g. Genesis 34:17
- b. of adopted daughter Est 2:7, 15. e.g. Esther 2:7
- c. used in speaking to daughter-in-law Ru 1:11, 12, 13; 2:2, 8, 22; 3:1, 16, 18. e.g. Ruth 1:11
- d. בַּת־אָבִיו = sister Ez 22:11 (appos. אחותו); also half-sister Gn 20:12 בַּת־אָבִי אַךְ לֹא בַת־אִמִּי, cf. Lv 18:9 & v 11 בַּת־אֵשֶׁת אָבִיךָ, 20:17. e.g. Ezekiel 22:11
- e. בַּת־דֹּדוֹ = cousin Est 2:7. e.g. Esther 2:7
- f. used in kindly address, בִּתִּי Ru 3:10, 11 (Boaz to Ruth), cf. ψ 45:11; בְּנוֹתַי in mouth of י׳ Is 43:6 (‖ בָּנַי). e.g. Ruth 3:10
- g. בְּנוֹת בָּנָיו = granddaughters Gn 46:7 (P) cf. Lv 18:10 & v 17 (H); note also Gn 37:35, where בנותיו must include other than actual daughters. e.g. Genesis 46:7
- h. רִבְקָה בַּת־בְּתוּאֵל (as more precise designation) Gn 25:20 cf. 24:23, 24, 47(×2) also 26:34(×2); 29:10 +; note especially †בַּת־פַּרְעֹה (without personal name) Ex 2:5, 7, 8, 9, 10 cf. 1 K 3:1; 7:8; 9:24; 11:1 2 Ch 8:11; בַּת־אִישׁ כְּנַעֲנִי וּשְׁמוֹ שׁוּעַ Gn 38:2 cf. v 12 (but cf. 1 Ch 2:3 sub בַּת־שׁוּעַ n.pr.f. infr.) e.g. Genesis 25:20
- i. often pl. as designation of women of a particular city, land, or people: בְּנוֹת צִיּוֹן Is 3:16, 17; 4:4 Ct 3:11 cf. Is 49:22; 60:4 La 3:51; בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַם Ct 1:5; 2:7; 3:5, 10; 5:8, 16; 8:4; בְּנוֹת־שִׁילוֹ Ju 21:21(×2); בְּנוֹת רַבָּה Je 49:3; observe transitional phrase בְּנוֹת אַנְשֵׁי הָעִיר Gn 24:13; further בְּנוֹת כְּנָ֑עַן Gn 28:1, 6, 8; 36:2 (all P) cf. ב׳ הַכְּנַעֲנִי Gn 24:3, 37 (J); בְּנוֹת הָאָרֶץ Gn 27:46; 34:1 (both P); בְּנוֹת מוֹאָב Nu 25:1 Is 16:2 cf. Nu 21:29; ב׳ חֵת Gn 27:46(×2) (P); ב׳ פְּלִשְׁתִּים Ju 14:1, 2 2 S 1:20 ‖ ב׳ הָֽעֲרֵלִים v 20 (poet.); ב׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל Ju 11:40 1 S 1:24 (poet.); ב׳ יְהוּדָה ψ 48:12; 97:8; ב׳ מְנַשֶּׁה Jos 17:6; ב׳ דָּן 2 Ch 2:13; cf. בַּת־לֵוִי Ex 2:1 i.e. a woman of tribe of Levi; also ב׳ אַחֶיךָ Ju 14:3; ב׳ עַמֶּ֑ךָ Ez 13:7.—בַּת־צִיּוֹן etc. v. sub 3 infr. e.g. Isaiah 3:16
- 2. young women, women Gn 30:13 (J) Pr 31:29 Ct 2:2; 6:9; בָּנוֹת בֹּטְחוֹת Is 32:9; also בַּת הַנָּשִׁים Dn 11:17. e.g. Genesis 30:13
- 3. with name of city, land, or people, poet. personif. of that city or inhabitants, etc.: בַּת־צִיּוֹן Is 1:8; 10:32; 16:1; 62:11 Mi 1:13; 4:8, 10, 13 Je 4:13; 6:2, 23 Zp 3:14 Zc 2:14; 9:9 ψ 9:15 La 1:6; 2:1, 4; 4:22; even זִקְנֵי בת־ציון La 2:10; חוֹמַת ב׳ צ׳ v 8, 18; also בְּתוּלַת ב׳־צ׳ 2 K 19:21 = Is 37:22 La 2:13; שְׁבִיָּה ב׳־צ׳ Is 52:2; ב׳ יְרוּשָׁלַם 2 K 19:21 = Is 37:22 Mi 4:8 Zp 3:14 Zc 9:9 La 2:13, 15; cf. בַּת־פּוּצַי Zp 3:10 daughter of my dispersed ones; בַּת־צֹר ψ 45:13; ב׳ בָּבֶל Je 50:42; 51:23 ψ 137:8; בְּתוּלַת ב׳ בָּבֶל Is 47:1; v. further Zc 2:11; also of Tarshish Is 23:10, Sidon v 12 (+ בְּתוּלַת), Dibon Je 48:18 (+ יוֹשֶׁבֶת), Gallim Is 10:30; בְּתוּלַת ב׳־יְהוּדָה La 1:15; cf. מִבְצְרֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה 2:2; בַּת־עַמִּי daughter of my people Is 22:4 Je 4:11; 6:14, 26; 8:11, 19, 21, 22, 23; 9:6 La 3:48; 4:3, 6, 10, בְּחוּלַת ב׳ ע׳ Je 14:17; בַּת־מִצְרָ֑יִם Je 46:24; also 46:11 (+ בְּתוּלַת), v 19 (+ יוֹשֶׁבֶת); ב׳ אֱדוֹם La 4:21, 22; ב׳ כַּשְׂדִּים Is 47:1, 5; note הַבַּת הַשּׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה Je 31:22 (‖ בְּתוּלַת יִשְׂרָאֵל v 21) 49:4 (= Ammon); on בַּת־אֲשֻׁרִים Ez 27:6 v. sub אֲשֻׁרִים p. 81; less often in pl. בְּנוֹת הַגּוֹיִם Ez 32:16; ב׳ גּ׳ אַדִּרִם v 18 (these perhaps sub 1 i); בְּנוֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּים Ez 16:27 (in allegory); cf. also of Sodom, Samaria, Syria etc. v 44, 45, 46(×2), 53, 55(×2), 57(×2); 23:2. e.g. Isaiah 1:8
- 4. pl. = villages, after name of city, וּבְחֶשְׁבּוֹן וּבְכָל־בְּנֹתֶיהָ Nu 21:25 cf. v 32; 32:42 (E) Jos 15:45, 47(×2) (JE?) + v 28 𝔊 Di, 17:11 (6 times) v 16 (J) = Ju 1:27(×4); 11:26(×2) Je 49:2 + 17 times Ch + 6 times Ne 11:25–31. On 1 Ch 18:1 & its variation from ‖ 2 S 8:1 vid. We Dr e.g. Numbers 21:25
- 5. in phrases denoting character, quality, etc., בַּת־אֵל נֵכָר daughter of a strange god, i.e. idolatrous (woman or people) Mal 2:11; בַּת־גְּדוּד daughter of a troop, i.e. war-like city Mi 4:14; בְּנוֹת הַשִּׁיר Ec 12:4 the daughters of song, i.e. songs, melodious notes; בַּת־בְּלִיַּעַל 1 S 1:16 v. בְּלִיַּעַל sub בלה. e.g. Malachi 2:11
- 6. בַּת יַעֲנָה = ostrich Lv 11:16 = Dt 14:15; pl. בְּנוֹת יַעֲנָה Jb 30:29 Mi 1:8 Is 13:21; 34:13; 43:20 Je 50:39 (v. יַעֲנָה); בַּת־עַיִן pupil of the eye La 2:18 cf. Ethiopic ብንተ ዐይን v. also אִישׁוֹן. e.g. Leviticus 11:16
- 7. fig. לַעֲלוּקָה שְׁתֵּי בָנוֹת Pr 30:15 two daughters (i.e. Sheʾôl & the barren womb, cf. Comm.) e.g. Proverbs 30:15
- 8. of vine = branch בָּנוֹת צָֽעֲדָה עֲלֵי־שׁוּר Gn 49:22 cf. Di & v. sub בֵּן. e.g. Genesis 49:22
- 9. as n. relat. (all P), of age of woman בַּת־תִּשְׁעִים שָׁנָה Gn 17:17; of ewe-lamb בַּת־שְׁנָתָהּ Lv 14:10 Nu 6:14; of she-goat id. Nu 15:27. Cf. בֵּן. 9—ii. בַּת v. בתת p. 144. e.g. Genesis 17:17
בת II daughter v. sub בן.
בת III bath (a measure), בָּתָה, בַּתָּה v. בתת.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.f. daughter (= בַּנְתְּ from בן; Ph. בת, MI בנת pl. maidens, Assyrian bintu WincklerSargon, Gloss., Arabic بِنْتٌ Sab. בת, בנת DHMZMG 1883, 391 CISiv. 1, No. 6. 21; Aramaic ܒܰܪܬ )—ב׳ abs. Ex 1:16 +; cstr. Gn 11:29 +; sf. בִּתִּי Dt 22:16 +; בִּתְּךָ Gn 29:18 +; בִּתֵּנוּ Gn 34:17 etc.; pl. בָּנוֹת Gn 5:4 +; cstr. בְּנוֹת Gn 6:2 +; sf. בְּנֹתַי Gn 31:26 +; בְּנוֹתֶיךָ Gn 19:12 +; בְּנֹתָם Gn 34:21; בְּנוֹתֵיהֶם Dt 12:31 +, etc.;—
II. daughter v. sub בן.
III. bath (a measure), בָּתָה, בַּתָּה v. בתת.
IV. n.m. Ez 45:14 (f. Is 5:10) bath (Thes al. from above √ in sense of define, measure; cf. τέμνω; LagOr. ii. 10 f. makes = בדת, = בד + fem. ת; cf. Syriac ܒܕ, instrument for pressing olives; cf. Epiphan. βάδος = ἐλαιοτριβεῖον; & βάδος also Hesych. JosAnt. viii, 2, 9 but ed. Niese βάτους, βάτος)—בּ׳ abs. Is 5:10 + 6 times; (בָּ֑ת Ez 45:11) cstr. Ez 45:10; pl. בַּתִּים 2 Ch 2:9(×2) + 3 times;—a liquid measure = אֵיפָה of dry measure, each being 1/10 חֹמֶר (q.v.) Ez 45:11(×2), 14(×2); also Is 5:10 1 K 7:26, 38 2 Ch 2:9(×2), 4:5 + Ez 45:14(×2) (4 times in this v., Co del. a & d). Ez 45:10 בַּת־צֶדֶק a righteous (right, accurate, full) bath (‖ אֵיפַת־צֶדֶק). The actual size of bath (= ephah) is appar. c. 40 litres (= Attic metretes cf. JosAnt. viii, 2, 9; = 39.39 lit. cf. Boeckh Metrol. Untersuch. 259 f.; v. also J. Brandis Münz- Mass- u. Gewichtswesen 29 f. Smith Dict. Bible, art. Weights & Measures RiHWB 934 f.).—i. בַּת v. sub בֵּן.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בנה (bânâh) (H1129) — to build.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בַּת I
- daughter; maiden, girl; servant-girl (opp. שפחה slave). Gitt. 89ᵃ בת לא"א a daughter of Abraham our father, a Jewess. B. Bath. 109ᵃ בן וב׳ כי הדדי נינהו son and daughter are legally the same. Kidd. II, 3 בת או שפחה גדלת (Bab. ed. מגוד׳) a maid or a slave as hair-dresser; a. fr.—Pl. בָּנוֹת, constr. בְּנוֹת. Sabb. VI, 6 הבָּ׳ girls. Kidd. 64ᵃ בְּ׳ ישראל מקוה וכ׳ Israelitish daughters (married to a degraded priest, v. חָלָל) are a well of purification (means of restoration to priestly ranks); a. fr.—Also Ch. בַּת (v. בְּרַת). Targ. Deut. XV, 12.—Mostly in compounds. Targ. I Sam. I, 16 ב׳ רשעא (h. text בת בליעל); v. infra.—[Y. Keth. II, 26ᵈ bot., read: בתר איתתיה. Y. Gitt. IX, 50ᵈ top כבת יוני, read: כתב.]
- a. בְּנוֹת (v. בֵּן, בַּר): ב׳ אור fuel, fit for fuel. Sabb. 25ᵇ. בנות אזנים, v. אֹזֶן.—בת ארעא a sore on the foot, v. אַרְעָא. Sabb. 65ᵃ (Mish. צנים).—ב׳ מזגא חמרא Little Wine-Mixer, name of a clean bird. Ḥull. 63ᵃ top.—ב׳ מינא of the same class or size. Ab. Zar. 28ᵃ.—ב׳ מלך, ב׳ חורין King’s, Noblemen’s Daughter, name of a demon. Sabb. 109ᵃ. [ב׳ עין, Ex. R. s. 30, some ed., v. בָּבָה.]—בת עינא the hole in the millstone through which the grain passes. M. Kat. 10ᵃ (Ms. M. בית טינא).—בת קבריא a species of raven. Esth. R. to I, 4, v. גַּלְגֵּל.—ב׳ קול
- 1. echo, reverberating sound. Ex. R. s. 29, end. Cant. R. to I, 3 as the oil (when poured out) אין לו ב׳ קול gives forth no reverberating sound, so does Israel (suffer silently).
- 2. Bath-Kol, divine voice, a sort of substitute for prophecy. Yoma 9ᵇ; a. fr.—בְּנוֹת שֶׁבַע a species of figs, v. בְּרַת. Maasr. II, 8; a. fr.—ב׳ שׁוּחַ a species of white figs. Dem. I, 1; a. e.—ב׳ שקמה young sycamore-figs. Ib.; Ber. 40ᵇ, v. דּוּבְלָא.—בת תיהא the small bung-hole in the spicket, to be opened for examining the flavor of the wine. Ab. Zar. 66ᵇ.—[For other compounds, v. respective determinants.]—Chald. pl., v. בְּרַת.
בַּת II
- , adv. בְּבַת [daughter, product of], בב׳ ראש (= בב׳ זקירת ראש) headlong; בב׳ אחת (= בב׳ עשייה אחת, בב׳ כתיבה &c.), at once, simultaneously, suddenly. Yoma 38ᵇ נזקרים בב׳ ר׳ לאחוריהם (Ms. M. בב׳אחת) staggered backward with a sudden movement (enchanted with the beauty of the music); Cant. R. to III, 6 נסקרין וכ׳; Y. Shek. V, 48ᵈ bot. נזקרין לו בת ראש (read בב׳) rushed forward to him headlong (to congratulate him). Yoma 67ᵇ זוקרו בב׳ ר׳ Ar. a. Ms. Oxf. (ed. זורקו) he pushes the scapegoat down the precipice headlong. Succ. 14ᵇ כדי שיזדקר בה גדי בב׳ ר׳ (Ms. M. גדי ראשו בב׳ אחת …, read בב׳ ראשו) wide enough for a goat to leap through with one headlong rush. Erub. 16ᵃ כדי שלא יזד׳ הגדי בב׳ ר׳ (Ms. M. … שלא ירקד הגדי בב׳ א׳; Tosef. Kil. IV, 6 … שלא יכנס הגדי; Erub. l. c. bot. בב׳ א׳) less space than a goat would require &c.—Yoma 38ᵇ היה כותבה בב׳ א׳ would write a word of four letters (with four pens between his fingers) at a time. Pes. 86ᵇ who empties his goblet בב׳ א׳ in one draught. Num. R. s. 4 they did not drop the curtain בב׳ א׳ at once, opp. קימעא קימעא; a. fr.
בַּת III
- c. (b. h.) bath, a measure; v. בֵּיתָא II.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 243 distinct written forms H1323 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 183 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1323, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אבן ʼeben H68 stone
- בית bayith H1004 house
- בן bên H1121 son
- בנא bᵉnâʼ H1124 to build
- בניה binyâh H1140 building
- בנין binyân H1146 building
- מבנה mibneh H4011 building
- תבן teben H8401 stubble
- תבנית tabnîyth H8403 pattern
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בנוי Binnûwy H1131 Binnui
- בני Bânîy H1137 Bani
- בני Bunnîy H1138 Bunni
- בניה Bᵉnâyâh H1141 Benaiah
- יבנאל Yabnᵉʼêl H2995 Jabneel
- יבנה Yabneh H2996 Jabneh
- יבניה Yibnᵉyâh H2997 Ibneiah
- יבניה Yibnîyâh H2998 Ibnijah
- מבני Mᵉbunnay H4012 Mebunnai
- בתיה Bithyâh H1332 Bithiah
- בת רבים Bath Rabbîym H1337 Bath-rabbim
- בתשבע Bath-Shebaʻ H1339 Bath-sheba
- בתשוע Bath-Shûwaʻ H1340 Bath-shua
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 24 — not the complete family. 13 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 466 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 498 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:4
- Exodus 1:16
- Leviticus 10:14
- Numbers 6:14
- Deuteronomy 5:14
- Joshua 7:24
- Judges 1:12
- Ruth 1:11
- 1 Samuel 1:4
- 2 Samuel 1:20
- 1 Kings 4:11
- 2 Kings 8:18
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
