DAUGHTER

DAUGHTER This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Genesis 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” (Isaiah 3=>16), “daughters of the Philistines” (2 Samuel 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 (Isaiah 23=>12). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as “the daughters of Zion” (Isaiah 37=>22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Genesis 49=>22). (6.) The “daughters of music” (Ecclesiastes 12=>4) are singing women.