Original Language Studio
Psalms 137:8
“O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בַּתbath · bath
H1323 · Hebrew
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
- בַּת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 590 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 5:4Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:13Genesis 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.
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.