נְקֵבָה
nᵉqêbâh · H5347 · Hebrew · 22 occurrences
Meanings
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female
Person or animal belonging to the female sex
ExamplesGenesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 5:2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created.
Genesis 6:19 “And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- תָּמִיםwithout defect, blameless, whole 2
- שֶׁבַעseven 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- שְׂעִירָה(shaggy) she-goat 2
- כִּשְׂבָּהewe lamb 1
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סָבַבto turn, to go around, to surround 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 1
- יָלַדto bear 1
Second object ofSecond object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּרָאto create 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 5
- עַדto, as far as, until 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּבְנִיתpattern, likeness, form 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
- θῆλυς thēlys · G2338 · female, woman
- Direct translation equivalent denoting biological sex category; Greek θῆλυς renders Hebrew נְקֵבָה in the LXX with full semantic correspondence across grammatical and biological contexts (creation ordinance, Levitical ritual law, census/tribal enumeration).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sex002001001051
- The word names the female sex, used of the pairs of male and female animals brought into the ark (Genesis 6:19, 7:9) and the creation of male and female (Genesis 1:27's parallel usage), tying the word to biological sex distinction.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5347. neqebah נְקֵבָה noun feminine female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; >…
נְקֵבָה noun feminine female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; > another view in SchwZAW xi (1891), 181f.; Idioticon 57; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic נוּקְבְּתָא נוּקְבָּא,, , ); — always absolute ׳נ Jer 31:22 Jer 31:21t. (all Pentateuch, and all P except Deu 4:16):
1 woman (or female child) Jer 31:22 (opposed to גֶּבֶר), Gen 1:27; Gen 5:2; Lev 12:5, Lev 12:7; Lev 15:33; Lev 27:4-5, Lev 27:6, Lev 27:7) Num 5:3 (all opposed to זָבָר), Num 31:15.
2 female animal Gen 6:19; Gen 7:3, Gen 7:9, Gen 7:16; Lev 3:1, Lev 3:6 (all opposed to זָכָר), Lev 4:28, Lev 4:32; Lev 5:6. — Deu 4:16 (opposed to זָכָר) may include both women and animals.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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