Brown-Driver-Briggs
נְקֵבָה noun feminine female (
perforata (Ba
NB 166); so Thes and most; > another view in Schw
ZAW xi (1891), 181f.; Idioticon 57; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic
נוּקְבָּא,
נוּקְבְּתָא,

,

); — always absolute
׳נ Jeremiah 31:22 21t. (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.