Hebrew

Noun

בַּת • ‎(bat) f ‎(plural indefinite בָּנוֹת, singular construct בַּת־, plural construct בְּנוֹת־, masculine counterpart בֶּן)

1. daughter
   • Exodus 2:7, with translation of the King James Version:

     וַתֹּאמֶר אֲחֹתוֹ אֶל בַּת פַּרְעֹה‎

     vatómer achotó el bat par'ó

     Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter

2. By analogy to בן – a direct female descendent:

   בת חוה‎ ― bat khavá ― daughter of Eve

3. A girl, a gal
4. (construct only) Used in expressing the age of a woman, a girl, or the referent of a feminine noun: age, aged.

   היא בת שש.‎ ― hi bat shesh. ― She is six years old. [literally, a daughter of six]

   • HaTikva

     עוד לא אבדה תקותינו \ התקוה בת שנות אלפים‎

     hatikvah bat shenot ʿalpayim / lihyot ʿam chofshi be'artzeinu

     Our hope is not yet lost / The hope of two thousand years old

Declension

Usage notes

• Like other words that start with ב,‎ ג,‎ ד,‎ כ,‎ פ,‎ or ת, this term's initial letter takes a dagesh lene. In older texts, that dagesh is usually dropped when the word is preceded, in the same phrase, by a word ending in a mater lectionis; in modern texts, the dagesh is usually preserved even in such a case. Likewise, in older texts, the dagesh is always dropped when the word is prefixed by an indefinite ב־‏,‎ כ־‏,‎ or ל־‏, or by ו־‏; in modern speech, the dagesh is often preserved in such a case. (After the definite ב־‏,‎ כ־‏,‎ and ל־‏, and after the prefixes ה־‏,‎ מ־‏,‎ and ש־‏, there is a dagesh forte, as described in the usage notes for those prefixes.)

References

• “H1323”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979