Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5347
נְקֵבָה
neqebahnek-ay-baw'
female
22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nᵉqêbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5347is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5347
female (from the sexual form)
The King James renders it: female.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
neqebah is rendered "female". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:27וּנְקֵבָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's twenty-two uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a female8
- and female6
- and of the female3
- female3
- and for the female1
- for the female1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְקֵא | neqe | pure | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּנְקֵבָ֖ה3
- נְקֵבָ֔ה3
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖ה2
- וּנְקֵבָ֑ה2
- נְקֵבָ֖ה2
- נְקֵבָֽה׃2
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֑ה1
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֣ה1
- וּנְקֵבָ֤ה1
- לַנְּקֵבָֽה׃1
- נְקֵבָ֥ה1
- נְקֵבָ֨ה1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · feminine singular11HAafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular6HC/Aafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singular4HC/Rd/Aafsa
- preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singular1HRd/Aafsa
Genesis
six uses
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- וּנְקֵבָ֖הunekevahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and female
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
- וּנְקֵבָ֖הunekevahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and female
And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
- וּנְקֵבָ֖הunekevahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and female
and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
- וּנְקֵבָ֑הunekevahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and female
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
- וּנְקֵבָ֑הunekevahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and female
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
- וּנְקֵבָ֤הunekevahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and female
Leviticus
twelve uses
“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
- נְקֵבָ֔הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
If, however, one’s peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.
- נְקֵבָ֔הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.
- נְקֵבָ֔הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
If, however, he brings a lamb as a sin offering, he must bring an unblemished female.
- נְקֵבָ֥הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- נְקֵבָ֨הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
- נְקֵבָ֣הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.
- לַנְּקֵבָֽה׃lanekevahpreposition with the article + adjective · feminine singulartagged: for the female
of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֑הvelanekevahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and for the female
Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
- נְקֵבָ֖הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: female
And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖הvelanekevahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and of the female
Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֣הvelanekevahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and of the female
And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
- וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖הvelanekevahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and of the female
Numbers
two uses
You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
- נְקֵבָה֙nekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: female
“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
- נְקֵבָֽה׃nekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: female
Deuteronomy
one use
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
- נְקֵבָֽה׃nekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
Jeremiah
one use
How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
- נְקֵבָ֖הnekevahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.