θυγάτηρ
thygátēr · G2364 · Greek · 28 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 people
Meanings
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daughter
Immediate female offspring
ExamplesMatthew 9:18 While He was saying these things to them, behold, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will become alive again.”
Matthew 10:35 “For I came to TURN A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;
Matthew 10:37 “The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
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daughter, lady, woman
(A figurative extension of meaning of θυγάτηρ ‘daughter,’) A woman for whom there is some affectionate concern
ExamplesMatthew 9:22 But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, “Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.” And at once the woman was made well.
Mark 5:34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be cured of your disease.”
Luke 8:48 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
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female descendant
(An extended meaning of θυγάτηρ ‘daughter,’) A nonimmediate female descendant (possibly involving a gap of several generations)
ExamplesLuke 1:5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Luke 13:16 “And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this restraint on the Sabbath day?”
Acts 2:17 ‘AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,’ God says, ‘THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS WILL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN WILL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN WILL HAVE DREAMS;
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woman of
(A figurative extension of meaning of θυγάτηρ ‘daughter,’) A female inhabitant of a place
ExamplesLuke 23:28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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people of Zion, people of Jerusalem
(An idiom, literally: daughter of Zion) The inhabitants of Jerusalem
ExamplesMatthew 21:5 “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.’”
John 12:15 “DO NOT FEAR, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY’S COLT.”
How it’s used In 10 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
19 occurrences in 11 groups
- σύyou 4
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- μονογενήςunique 1
- τέσσαρεςfour 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- παρθένοςvirgin 1
- ἌνναAnna 1
What it doesIt is the subject
9 occurrences in 9 groups
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- φιλέωto love 1
It is given or told toIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- γυνήwoman, wife 1
- σύyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐκfrom 5
- εἰςto 1
- ἐπίon 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- υἱόςson 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- בַּת bath · H1323 · daughter, daughters, women
- Hebrew בַּת and Greek θυγάτηρ are direct translation equivalents for 'daughter' or 'female descendant,' with both extending to figurative uses (inhabitants of a city, descendants of a people) via the same Hebraism pattern that the Greek gloss explicitly notes as borrowed from Hebrew usage.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Female descendant10.31
- In Luke 13:16, Jesus speaks of a woman he healed, calling her “a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years,” using this word for a female descendant of a lineage.
- Daughter10.46
- In Acts 7:21, of the infant Moses it is written that “Pharaoh's daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son,” using this word for a literal female child.
- Woman of11.65
- In Luke 23:28, on the way to the cross Jesus turned to the women and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children,” using this word for women belonging to that city.
- People of Zion, people of Jerusalem11.66
- In Matthew 21:5, it is written, “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY,’” using this word for the people of Zion personified as a woman.
- Daughter, lady, woman9.47
- In Luke 8:48, Jesus tells the woman healed of her bleeding, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace,” using this word as a term of tender address.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon genitive θυγατρός, dative θυγατρί, accusative θυγατέρα, vocative θύγατερ, plural…
a. the vocative (or nominative as vocative cf. Winers Grammar, § 29, 2; Buttmann, § 129 a. 5; WH's Appendix, p. 158) in kindly address: Mt 9:22; Mk 5:34 (L Tr WH θυγάτηρ); Lk 8:48 (Tr WH θυγάτηρ) (see υἱός 1 a. at the end, τέκνον, b. α.).
b. in phrases modeled after the Hebrew: α. a daughter of God i. e. acceptable to God, rejoicing in God's peculiar care and protection: 2 Cor 6:18 (Isa 43:6; Wis. 9:7; see υἱός τοῦ Θεοῦ 4, τέκνον b. γ.). β. with the name of a place, city, or region, it denotes collectively all its inhabitants and citizens (very often so in the O. T., as Isa 37:22; Jer 26:19; Zeph 3:14, etc.); in the N. T. twice ἡ θυγάτηρ Σιών, i. e. inhabitants of Jerusalem: Mt 21:5; Jn 12:15 (Isa 1:8; Isa 10:32; Zech 9:9, etc.; see Σιών, 2). γ. θυγατέρες Ἱερουσαλήμ, women of Jerusalem: Lk 23:28. δ. female descendant: αἱ θυγατερς Ἀαρών, women of Aaron's posterity, Lk 1:5; θυγαττερ Ἀβραάμ daughter of Abraham, i. e. a woman tracing her descent from Abraham, Lk 13:16 (4 Macc 15:28 (25); Gen 28:8; Gen 36:2; Judg 11:40; Isa 16:2, etc.).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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