Definition

a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)

Etymology

from H1129 (בָּנָה) (as feminine of H1121 (בֵּן));

Where the KJV renders it

• apple (of the eye)
• branch
• company
• daughter
• first
• old
• owl
• town
• village

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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