Daughter: This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate,1. A niece or any female descendant
(Genesis 20:12; 24:48; 28:6)
2. Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a
place; as, "the daughters of Zion"
(Isaiah 3:16) "daughters of the
Philistines"
(2 Samuel 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
(Isaiah 23:12)
4. The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion"
(Isaiah 37:22)
5. The daughters of a tree are its boughs
(Genesis 49:22)
6. The "daughters of music"
(Ecclesiastes 12:4) are singing women.
