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Lexicon :: Strong's H5347 - nᵊqēḇâ

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נְקֵבָה
Transliteration
nᵊqēḇâ
Pronunciation
nek-ay-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1409b

Strong’s Definitions

נְקֵבָה nᵉqêbâh, nek-ay-baw'; from H5344; female (from the sexual form):—female.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H5347 in the following manner: female (18x), woman (3x), maid (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H5347 in the following manner: female (18x), woman (3x), maid (1x).

  1. female

    1. woman, female child

    2. female animal

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נְקֵבָה nᵉqêbâh, nek-ay-baw'; from H5344; female (from the sexual form):—female.
STRONGS H5347: Abbreviations
† נְקֵבָה noun feminine female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; > another view in SchwZAW xi (1891), 181f.; Idioticon 57; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic נוּקְבָּא, נוּקְבְּתָא, bdb066607, bdb066608); — always absolute נ׳ Jeremiah 31:22 + 21 times (all Pentateuch, and all P except Deuteronomy 4:16):
1. woman (or female child) Jeremiah 31:22 (opposed to גֶּבֶר), Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2; Leviticus 12:5, 7; Leviticus 15:33; Leviticus 27:4, 5, 6, 7) Numbers 5:3 (all opposed to זָבָר), Numbers 31:15.
2. female animal Genesis 6:19; Genesis 7:3, 9, 16; Leviticus 3:1, 6 (all opposed to זָכָר), Leviticus 4:28, 32; Leviticus 5:6. — Deuteronomy 4:16 (opposed to זָכָר) may include both women and animals.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:27; 5:2; 6:19; 7:3; 7:9; 7:16

Leviticus

3:1; 3:6; 4:28; 4:32; 5:6; 12:5; 12:7; 15:33; 27:4; 27:5; 27:6; 27:7

Numbers

5:3; 31:15

Deuteronomy

4:16; 4:16

Jeremiah

31:22; 31:22

H5347

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5347 matches the Hebrew נְקֵבָה (nᵊqēḇâ),
which occurs 22 times in 22 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:27 - So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:2 - He created them male and female, and blessed them and named them [fn]Mankind at the time they were created.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19 - “And of every living thing [found on land], you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - also of the birds of the air, seven pair, the male and the female, to keep the offspring alive on the surface of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9 - they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16 - Those which entered, male and female of all flesh (creatures), entered as God had commanded Noah; and the LORD closed the door behind him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:1 -

‘If a man’s offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - ‘If his peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer the animal without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:28 - if his sin which he has committed is made known to him, then he shall bring a goat, a female without blemish as his offering for the sin which he has committed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:32 -

‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - ‘He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - ‘But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly period, and she shall remain [intimately separated] sixty-six days to be purified from the blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who gives birth to a child, whether a male or a female child.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - and for the woman who is ill because of her monthly period, and for the one who has a discharge, whether man or woman, or for a man who lies with a woman who is [ceremonially] unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:4 - ‘Or if the person is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - ‘If the person is between five years and twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - ‘But if the child is between one month and five years of age, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male and three shekels for the female.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - ‘If the person is sixty years old and above, your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male, and ten shekels for the female.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - “You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:15 - And Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved or sculpted image [to worship] in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:22 -

“How long will you hesitate [to return],

O you faithless and renegade daughter?

For the LORD has created a [fn]new thing in the land [of Israel]:

A woman will encompass (tenderly love) a man.”

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