Neqevah נְקֵבָה

Neqevah (Hebrew נְקֵבָה, Strong's H5347) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “female”. It occurs 22 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Gender

Verses

Every verse with Neqevah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• 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.So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
• Genesis 5:2
  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
• Genesis 6:19
  And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
• Genesis 7:3
  Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.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.
• Genesis 7:9
  There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
• 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.And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Leviticus

• 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 Lord.“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.
• 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.If, however, one’s peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female 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 he hath sinned.When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.
• Leviticus 4:32
  And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.If, however, he brings a lamb as a sin offering, he must bring an unblemished female.
• 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 offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.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.
• Leviticus 12:5
  But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.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.
• 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 born a male or 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.
• Leviticus 15:33
  And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.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.’”
• Leviticus 27:4
  And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
• Leviticus 27:5
  And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.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.
• Leviticus 27:6
  And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.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.
• Leviticus 27:7
  And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.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.

Numbers

• 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.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.”
• Numbers 31:15
  And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 4:16
  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,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,

Jeremiah

• 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.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.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).