Dict: easton - Daughter

easton:

Daughter @ This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate,

(1.) A niece or any female descendant kjv@Genesis:20:12 kjv@Genesis:24:48 kjv@Genesis:28:6 ).

(2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" kjv@Isaiah:3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" ( kjv@2Samuel:1:20).

(3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon kjv@Isaiah:23:12).

(4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" kjv@Isaiah:37:22).

(5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs kjv@Genesis:49:22).

(6.) The "daughters of music" kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:4) are singing women.