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Matthew 9:18 θυγάτηρ daughter

While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

Here: His daughter. Mark and Luke add that she was twelve, and Luke that she was his only daughter. Matthew lets the single word carry the father's grief.

Matthew 9:22 θύγατερ, daughter,

Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that very hour.

Here: Said directly to her. It is a warm, family word, the only time in Matthew that Jesus calls anyone 'daughter'. It also echoes the synagogue ruler's 'my daughter' (9:18), whose story surrounds this one.

Matthew 10:35 θυγατέρα a daughter

For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Here: An unmarried daughter still in her mother's house. The division reaches the women's side of the household too.

Matthew 10:37 θυγατέρα daughter

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Here: A father had to protect her, arrange her marriage and guard her honour. These were heavy duties of love and family standing.

Matthew 14:6 θυγάτηρ daughter

On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod

Here: The dancer is named only by her relationship. Matthew later calls her a 'girl' (korasion, 14:11). Josephus names her Salome, but the Gospels never do.

Matthew 15:22 θυγάτηρ daughter

And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”

Here: Her child, who is not present. Like the centurion's servant (Matt 8:5–13), this is a healing at a distance for a Gentile, done on the strength of someone else's plea.

Matthew 15:28 θυγάτηρ daughter

“O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

Here: The girl was never present. She was healed at a distance by Jesus' word, as the centurion's servant was (8:13).

Matthew 21:5 θυγατρὶ daughter

“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

Here: This is part of the fixed Hebrew phrase 'Daughter Zion', in which the city of Jerusalem and her people are pictured as a young woman. The phrase means Zion herself, not one girl who lives there.

Mark 5:34 θυγάτηρ, Daughter,

“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”

Here: Used as a form of address. This is family language from a man with authority, given to a woman with no named family, and it ties her to Jairus's 'little daughter' in the story that frames this one (5:23, 35).

Mark 5:35 θυγάτηρ daughter

While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?”

Here: "Daughter". In the verse before, Jesus called the healed woman "Daughter". Now the same word arrives as news of death. One "daughter" has just been restored and the other is reported lost.

Mark 6:22 θυγατρὸς daughter

When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

Here: 'Daughter.' Whose daughter she is depends on the next word, which differs between manuscripts.

Mark 7:26 θυγατρὸς daughter

Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:29 θυγατρός daughter

Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

Luke 1:5 θυγατέρων daughters

In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron.

Here: Female descendants, not literal daughters. 'Daughters of Aaron' means women of priestly family.

Luke 2:36 θυγάτηρ daughter

There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,

Here: She is identified through her father, as was normal. Even after marriage and widowhood, her lineage still matters.

Luke 8:42 θυγάτηρ daughter

because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,

Luke 8:48 θυγάτηρ, daughter,

“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

Here: A warm family word for addressing someone, here in the nominative form used as a direct address. This is the only time in the Gospels that Jesus calls someone "daughter." It gives a nameless woman a place of belonging, and it sits right beside the story of Jairus' daughter.

Luke 8:49 θυγάτηρ daughter

While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore.”

Luke 12:53 θυγατέρα θυγάτηρ daughter

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Luke 13:16 θυγατέρα a daughter

Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Here: A family word. With 'of Abraham' it names her as a full member of the covenant family. That raises her far above the animals just mentioned and gives her a claim on the people in the synagogue.

Luke 23:28 θυγατέρες Daughters

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Here: Used as a form of address. "Daughters of Jerusalem" is a phrase from Israel's scriptures, and it marks these women both as real women of the city and as stand-ins for the city itself.

John 12:15 θυγάτηρ daughter

“Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”

Here: Used to address someone. In the phrase "daughter Zion" the city is the daughter. Jerusalem and her people are pictured as a young woman, loved and protected, and in need of a protector.

Acts 2:17 θυγατέρες daughters

‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Here: Women share in prophetic speech on the same footing as men, and Luke goes on to show it (Acts 21:9; compare Anna, Luke 2:36).

Acts 7:21 θυγάτηρ daughter

When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

Acts 21:9 θυγατέρες daughters

He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

Here: Philip's own daughters, living in his house. The word quietly echoes Joel's promise quoted in Acts 2:17, 'your sons and your daughters will prophesy'.

2 Corinthians 6:18 θυγατέρας, daughters,

And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Here: Not in 2 Samuel 7:14. Most likely it echoes Isaiah 43:6 ('bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth'). It names the women of the community as full members of God's household.

Hebrews 11:24 θυγατρὸς of [the] daughter

By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

Here: 'Of the daughter'. The princess who drew Moses from the Nile and adopted him (Exodus 2:5–10).