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Leviticus 22:13

“But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

בַּתbath · bath
H1323 · Hebrew

Definition: a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Derivation: from H1129 (בָּנָה) (as feminine of H1121 (בֵּן));
KJV renderings: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, [idiom] first, [idiom] old, [phrase] owl, town, village.
Grammar: וּ — conjunction
בַת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
Code HC/Ncfsc
Usage: Occurs 590 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 5:4 Genesis 5:7 Genesis 5:10 Genesis 5:13 Genesis 5:16

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בַּת here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.