King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5347
Transliteration: neqebah
Phonetic Spelling: (nek-ay-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a female
Meaning: a female
Word Summary
neqebah: a female
Original Word: נְקֵבָהTransliteration: neqebah
Phonetic Spelling: (nek-ay-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a female
Meaning: a female
Strong's Concordance
female From naqab; female (from the sexual form) -- female.
see HEBREW naqab
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5347. neqebah
נְקֵבָה noun feminine female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; > another view in SchwZAW xi (1891), 181f.; Idioticon 57; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic נוּקְבְּתָא נוּקְבָּא,, , ); — 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; 5:2; Leviticus 12:5, 7; 15:33; 27:4-5, 6, 7) Numbers 5:3 (all opposed to זָבָר), 31:15.
2 female animal Genesis 6:19; 7:3, 9, 16; Leviticus 3:1, 6 (all opposed to זָכָר), 4:28, 32; 5:6. — Deuteronomy 4:16 (opposed to זָכָר) may include both women and animals.