נְקֵבָה neqevah

Hebrew word for “female” · Strong’s H5347 · used 22 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

1) female; 1a) woman, female child; 1b) female animal

How it is translated

Glosses given for neqevah in context, with how often each is used:

• female 22

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 27 (4), Genesis 7 (3), Leviticus 3 (2), Leviticus 4 (2), Leviticus 12 (2), Genesis 1 (1), Genesis 5 (1), Genesis 6 (1), Leviticus 5 (1), Leviticus 15 (1)

Forms

• נקבה 11
• ונקבה 6
• ולנקבה 4
• לנקבה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with neqevah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זָכָר zakhar “male” 15
• עֵרֶךְ erekh “valuation” 4
• אִם im “if” 8
• שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 4
• אוֹ o “or” 5
• קׇרְבָּן qorban “offering” 4
• תָּמִים tamim “unblemished” 4
• שְׂעִירָה seirah “female goat” 2
• בָּרָא bara “to create” 3
• נִדָּה niddah “impurity” 2
• תֵּבָה tevah “ark” 2
• חָיָה chayah “to live” 3

Key verses

The verses using neqevah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
• Genesis 7:16 — And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
• Leviticus 3:1 — And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the…
• Leviticus 3:6 — And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
• Leviticus 4:28 — Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which…
• Leviticus 4:32 — And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
• Leviticus 5:6 — And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin…
• Leviticus 12:7 — Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath…
• Numbers 5:3 — Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
• Numbers 31:15 — And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
• Deuteronomy 4:16 — Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
• Jeremiah 31:22 — How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.