DAUGHTER
This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 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" (Isa. 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2-Sam 1:20). (3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or m......
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTERS
Three princesses are thus mentioned in Scripture: (1.) The princess who adopted the infant Moses (q.v.), Exo 2:10. She is twice mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 7:21: Heb. 11:24). It would seem that she was alive and in some position of influence about the court when Moses was compelled to flee from Egypt, and thus for forty years he had in some way been under her influence. She was in all pro......