Translation | Verse | Text |
Strong Concordance | La 1:6 | And from the daughter [01323] of Zion [06726] all her beauty [01926] is departed [03318]: her princes [08269] are become like harts [0354] that find [04672] no pasture [04829], and they are gone [03212] without strength [03581] before [06440] the pursuer [07291]. |
Word | Easton Dictionary - Definition |
DAUGHTER | This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 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" (Isa. 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Sam. 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 (Isa. 23:12). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.) The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women. |