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5674 daughters
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The female offspring of parents. Daughters lived in their father's house, under his protection, until marriage. Usually they became his heirs only if he had no sons to inherit his estate. Normally they shared in the inheritance of their husbands.
Protection of daughters
Fathers were responsible for protecting their daughters
Genesis 31:50 See also Genesis 19:12-13,15-17; Numbers 30:3-5
Examples of fathers who failed to protect their daughters
Genesis 19:8 See also Judges 19:24; 2 Samuel 13:6-14
Marriage of daughters
Fathers were responsible for arranging marriages for their daughters
Genesis 34:8-9 See also Genesis 29:26; Joshua 15:16-17 pp Judges 1:12-13; Judges 12:9; Judges 21:1; 1 Samuel 18:17-21; Samuel 25:44
Fathers received a bride-price from their daughters' husbands
1 Samuel 18:25 See also Genesis 29:16-27
Fathers gave a dowry to their daughters
1 Kings 9:16 See also Joshua 15:17-19 pp Judges 1:13-15
Sometimes the marriage of a daughter was the basis of a political alliance
1 Kings 3:1 See also Daniel 11:6,17
In cases of dispute, parents were expected to prove their daughter's virginity
Inheritance of daughters
If a man had no sons, the inheritance went to his daughters
Numbers 27:1-11 See also Joshua 17:3-6
Daughters who inherited their father's property were obliged to marry within his clan
Numbers 36:1-12
Job allocated his daughters an inheritance
Priests' daughters
Leviticus 10:14 See also Leviticus 21:1-2,9; Leviticus 22:12-13; Numbers 18:11,19; Ezekiel 44:25
Slavery of daughters
In dire circumstances fathers sometimes sold their daughters into slavery
Nehemiah 5:5 See also Exodus 21:7
A slave girl married to a son was to be accorded the rights of a daughter
Immorality of daughters
Prostitution of daughters forbidden
Leviticus 19:29 See also Leviticus 21:9
Incest of Lot's daughters
Daughters-in-law
Sexual relations with daughters-in-law forbidden
Leviticus 18:15 See also Leviticus 20:12; Ezekiel 22:11
Examples of daughters-in-law
Ruth 4:14-15 See also Genesis 38:6-26; Ruth 1:3-17
Daughters in a spiritual role
Acts 21:9 See also Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17
An adopted daughter
Esther 2:7
Daughter in a non-literal sense
Of an area, town or country or its population
Matthew 21:5 pp John 12:15 See also 2 Kings 19:21; Psalm 137:8; Isaiah 10:30; Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 52:2; Jeremiah 6:23; Jeremiah 48:18; Jeremiah 51:33; Lamentations 1:15; Lamentations 2:10; Micah 4:8; Zephaniah 3:14; Zechariah 2:7; Zechariah 9:9
Of the female inhabitants of an area, town or country
Luke 23:27-29 See also Genesis 24:3,13; 2 Samuel 1:24; Songs 3:5; Songs 5:8; Isaiah 32:9-11; Ezekiel 13:17; Ezekiel 32:18
Of the female descendants
Luke 13:16 See also 1 Peter 3:5-6
As an honorific term
Matthew 9:22 pp Mark 5:34 pp Luke 8:48
Daughters in a theological sense
God's people are his sons and daughters
2 Corinthians 6:18 See also Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 31:21-22
Family relationships must be subservient to one's relationship with God
Matthew 10:37 See also Matthew 10:35 pp Luke 12:53
5664 children
5679 dowry
5684 fathers
5701 heir
5708 marriage
5724 offspring
5738 sons
6239 prostitution
7115 children of God