DAUGHTER

Daughter. Daughter
This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, “the daughters of Zion” (Isa. 3:16), “daughters of the Philistines” (2 Sam. 1:20). (3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its “daughters,” as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isa. 23:12). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as “the daughters of Zion” (Isa. 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.) The “daughters of music” (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.

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DAUGHTER. → Forbidden to be wife of her mother's husband Le 20:14 → Sold in concubinage Ex 21:7-10 → Given in marriage by parents Jud 1:12,13; 1Sa 17:25; 18:20,21 → Property rights of Nu 27:1-11; 36; Jos 17:3-6; Ru 4:3 → Used also for granddaughter Ge 36:2

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daughter. Daughter, n. a female child, a female penitent

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Daugh″ter (?), n.; pl. Daughters (#); obs. pl. Daughtren (#). [[OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. dōttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. dŭshti, Russ. doche, Lith. duktē, Gr. θυγάτηρ, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhitṛ; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. √68, 245.]] 1. 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; — applied also to the lower animals.
2. 2. A female descendant; a woman.
This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11. 4. 4. A term of address indicating parental interest.
Daughter, be of good comfort. Matt. ix. 22. Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.