Lexical Summary thygatēr: daughter Original Word: θυγάτηρTransliteration: thygatēr Phonetic Spelling: (thoo-gat'-air) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: daughter Meaning: daughter Strong's Concordance daughter. Apparently a primary word (compare "daughter"); a female child, or (by Hebraism) descendant (or inhabitant) -- daughter. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2364: θυγάτηρθυγάτηρ, genitive θυγατρός, dative θυγατρί, accusative θυγατέρα, vocative θύγατερ, plural θυγατέρες, accusative θυγατέρας, ἡ (of the same root as Gothicdauhtar, English daughter, German Tochter (Curtius, § 318; Vanicek, p. 415)); Hebrew בַּת; (from Homer down); a daughter: properly, Matthew 9:18; Matthew 10:35, 37; Matthew 15:22; Acts 7:21, etc. improperly, a. the vocative (or nominative as vocative cf. Winers Grammar, § 29, 2; Buttmann, § 129 a. 5; WH's Appendix, p. 158) in kindly address: Matthew 9:22; Mark 5:34 (L Tr WH θυγάτηρ); Luke 8:48 (Tr WH θυγάτηρ) (see υἱός 1 a. at the end, τέκνον, b. α.). b. in phrases modeled after the Hebrew: α. a daughter of God i. e. acceptable to God, rejoicing in God's peculiar care and protection: 2 Corinthians 6:18 (Isaiah 43:6; Wis. 9:7; see υἱός τοῦ Θεοῦ 4, τέκνον b. γ.). β. with the name of a place, city, or region, it denotes collectively all its inhabitants and citizens (very often so in the O. T., as Isaiah 37:22; Jeremiah 26:19 |
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