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# נְקֵבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5347

**female** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

female [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5347/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְקֵבָה: n.f. female [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5347/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; \> another view in Schwally ZAW xi (1891), 181 f.; Idiot. 57; NH = BH; Aramaic נוּקְבָּא, נוּקְבְּתָא, ܢܶܩܒܳܐ, ܢܶܩܒܬܳܐ );—always abs. נ׳ Je 31:22 + 21 times (all Pent., and all P except Dt 4:16): woman (or female child) Je 31:22 (opp. גֶּבֶר), Gn 1:27; 5:2; Lv 12:5, 7; 15:33; 27:4, 5, 6, 7; Nu 5:3 (all opp. זָכָר), Nu 31:15. female animal Gn 6:19; 7:3, 9, 16; Lv 3:1, 6 (all opp. זָכָר), 4:28, 32; 5:6.—Dt 4:16 (opp. זָכָר) may include both women and animals.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: female (13); a female (8); \[is\] female (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 31:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.15/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם כָּל־נְקֵבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to them Moses have you.let.live? every female

*JPS 1917:* And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?

[Leviticus 27:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/#tree)

וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְהָיָ֥ה עֶרְכְּךָ֖ שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָֽׁקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and if \[is\].female she and it.will.be valuation your thirty shekel\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5347/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).