Girl
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GIRL

gurl: Twice in the Old Testament as the rendering of yaldah (Joel 3:3 Zechariah 8:5), in both cases in association with boys. Same word rendered "damsel" in Genesis 34:4.

See DAUGHTER; MAID, MAIDEN.

Greek
2877. korasion -- girl
... girl. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: korasion Phonetic Spelling:
(kor-as'-ee-on) Short Definition: a girl, little girl Definition: a little girl ...
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3814. paidiske -- a young girl, maidservant
... a young girl, maidservant. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: paidiske
Phonetic Spelling: (pahee-dis'-kay) Short Definition: a female slave ...
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4498. Rhode -- Rhoda, a servant girl
... Rhoda, a servant girl. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Rhode Phonetic
Spelling: (hrod'-ay) Short Definition: Rhoda Definition: Rhoda, a ...
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5008. talitha -- maiden
... Speech: Aramaic Transliterated Word (Indeclinable) Transliteration: talitha Phonetic
Spelling: (tal-ee-thah') Short Definition: little girl Definition: (Aramaic ...
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3816. pais -- a child, boy, youth
... boy, youth. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine; Noun, Masculine Transliteration: pais
Phonetic Spelling: (paheece) Short Definition: a boy or girl child Definition ...
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3813. paidion -- a young child
... Neuter diminutive of pais; a childling (of either sex), ie (properly), an infant,
or (by extension) a half-grown boy or girl; figuratively, an immature ...
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3565. numphe -- a bride, a young woman
... but obsolete verb nupto (to veil as a bride; compare Latin "nupto," to marry); a
young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl; by implication, a ...
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Strong's Hebrew
3207. yaldah -- girl, maiden
... 3206, 3207. yaldah. 3208 . girl, maiden. Transliteration: yaldah Phonetic
Spelling: (yal-daw') Short Definition: girl. Word Origin fem. ...
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5291. naarah -- a girl, maiden
... 5290, 5291. naarah. 5292 . a girl, maiden. Transliteration: naarah Phonetic
Spelling: (nah-ar-aw') Short Definition: girl. Word Origin fem. ...
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8198. shiphchah -- maid, maidservant
... female (9), female servant (3), female servants (5), maid (20), maids (5), maidservant
(15), maidservants (1), servants* (6), slave (1), slave girl (1), slaves ...
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5959. almah -- a young woman, a virgin
... Word Origin fem. of elem Definition a young woman, a virgin NASB Word Usage girl
(1), maid (1), maiden (1), maidens (3), virgin (1). damsel, maid, virgin. ...
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5288. naar -- a boy, lad, youth, retainer
... Of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age) -- babe, boy, child, damsel (from the
margin), lad, servant, young (man). see HEBREW na'ar. 5287, 5288. ...
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Library

The Jewish Girl
... BIBLE STORIES AND RELIGIOUS CLASSICS THE JEWISH GIRL. By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. ...
And the little Jewish girl was taken away from the school of the Christians. ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the jewish girl.htm

The Little Match Girl
... BIBLE STORIES AND RELIGIOUS CLASSICS THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. ... In the cold and gloom
a poor little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, was walking through the streets. ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the little match girl.htm

The He-Said Girl
... THE HE-SAID GIRL. ... We could not stop that if we would, and we would not stop it
if we could. The danger comes when a girl thinks of little else. ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/the he-said girl.htm

God Heals a Blind Girl
... GOD HEALS A BLIND GIRL. One day we went to visit Ruth's aunt. ... Surely God
did a wonderful work in answer to a little girl's prayer. ...
/.../touching incidents and remarkable answers to prayer/god heals a blind girl.htm

How a Little Girl Utilized the Telephone
... How a Little Girl Utilized the Telephone. A mother living not very far from
the post-office in this city, tired with watching over ...
/.../how a little girl utilized.htm

The Little Girl who Died to Save Her Father's Life
... THE LITTLE GIRL WHO DIED TO SAVE HER FATHER'S LIFE. [Illustration] ... This little girl
lived near a deep ravine at the foot of one of the mountains in Switzerland. ...
/.../the little girl who died.htm

Death of a Young Girl.
... MOURNING AND CONSOLATION. 590. " Death of a Young Girl. 590. 8s. & 7s.
M. SF Smith. Death of a Young Girl. 1 Sister, thou wast ...
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Death of a Young Girl.
... MOURNING AND CONSOLATION. 586. " Death of a Young Girl. 586. SM Wilson. Death of
a Young Girl. 1 What though the stream be dead, Its banks all still and dry! ...
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The Dying Girl's Prayer for Her Drunken Father
... THE DYING GIRL'S PRAYER FOR HER DRUNKEN FATHER. ... The physician told the father
that his little girl would die. No! he did not believe it. ...
/.../the dying girls prayer for.htm

Buying a Slave Girl
... BUYING A SLAVE GIRL. It is impossible to understand accurately the early
history of Plymouth Church, and realise the position it ...
/.../griswold/sixty years with plymouth church/buying a slave girl.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A young person of either sex; a child.

2. (n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.

3. (n.) A female servant; a maidservant.

4. (n.) A roebuck two years old.

Thesaurus
Girl (71 Occurrences)
...GIRL. gurl: Twice in the Old Testament as the rendering of yaldah (Joel 3:3 Zechariah
8:5), in both cases in association with boys. ...Girl (71 Occurrences). ...
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Servant-girl (18 Occurrences)
Servant-girl. Servant, Servant-girl. Servant-girls . Multi-Version
Concordance Servant-girl (18 Occurrences). Matthew ...
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Girl's (12 Occurrences)
...Girl's (12 Occurrences). Luke 8:51 So He came to the house, but allowed no one to
go in with Him but Peter and John and James and the girl's father and mother. ...
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Slave-girl (6 Occurrences)
Slave-girl. Slave-dealers, Slave-girl. Slave-girl's . Multi-Version
Concordance Slave-girl (6 Occurrences). John 18:17 ...
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Slave-girl's (1 Occurrence)
Slave-girl's. Slave-girl, Slave-girl's. Slavery . Multi-Version
Concordance Slave-girl's (1 Occurrence). Galatians 4 ...
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Damsel (43 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden. ... DAMSEL. dam'-zel: A young, unmarried
woman; a girl (lass); maiden (compare French demoiselle). ...
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Girls (27 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Joel 3:3 And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance:
giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine. ...
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Dish (54 Occurrences)
... WBS). Matthew 14:11 The head was brought on a dish and given to the young
girl, and she took it to her mother. (WEY DBY WBS). Matthew ...
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Maid (57 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young
unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. 2. (n.) A ...
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Maiden (40 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not
experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. 2. (n.) A female servant. ...
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Bible Concordance
Girl (71 Occurrences)

Matthew 9:24 he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 9:25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 14:11 The head was brought on a dish and given to the young girl, and she took it to her mother.
(WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 26:69 Now Peter was seated in the open square outside the house: and a servant-girl came to him, saying, You were with Jesus the Galilaean.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Matthew 26:71 Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."
(WEY NAS NIV)

Mark 5:41 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!"
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 5:42 Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:22 And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:25 The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."
(WEY NIV)

Mark 6:28 and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, who gave it to her mother.
(WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 14:69 And the girl saw him, and said again to those who were near, This is one of them.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Luke 8:42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
(See NIV)

Luke 8:51 So He came to the house, but allowed no one to go in with Him but Peter and John and James and the girl's father and mother.
(WEY BBE NAS)

Luke 22:56 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."
(WEB NAS NIV)

John 18:16 But Peter was kept outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was a friend of the high priest, came out and had a word with the girl who kept the door, and took Peter in.
(BBE NIV)

John 18:17 This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.
(WEY BBE NAS NIV)

Acts 12:13 And he gave a blow on the door, and a young girl came to it, named Rhoda.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Acts 16:16 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 16:19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 7:28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
(See RSV)

1 Corinthians 7:34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world-how she may please her husband.
(See RSV)

Genesis 24:14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Genesis 24:16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Genesis 24:28 So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house
(BBE NAS NIV)

Genesis 24:43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,
(BBE)

Genesis 24:55 But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Genesis 24:57 And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Genesis 29:24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.
(BBE NIV)

Genesis 29:29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.
(BBE NIV)

Genesis 34:3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
(See NAS NIV)

Genesis 34:4 And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.
(BBE DBY NAS NIV)

Genesis 34:12 However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Exodus 1:16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."
(See NIV)

Exodus 1:22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
(See NIV)

Exodus 2:5 Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.
(BBE NIV)

Exodus 2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's mother.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 11:5 And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Leviticus 12:7 and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 19:20 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 22:13 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.
(BBE)

Numbers 31:18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
(Root in WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:15 Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:
(BBE NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:19 They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
(See NAS)

Deuteronomy 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
(See NAS)

Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
(See NAS NIV)

Judges 5:30 Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?
(BBE NIV)

Judges 9:18 and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
(See NIV)

Ruth 2:5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this?
(BBE)

Ruth 2:6 And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;
(BBE)

1 Samuel 30:19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.
(BBE NIV)

1 Kings 1:3 So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.
(BBE NAS NIV)

1 Kings 1:4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Kings 5:2 Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.
(BBE NAS NIV)

2 Kings 5:4 And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Esther 2:4 And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.
(BBE NIV)

Esther 2:7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
(See NIV)

Esther 2:9 And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.
(BBE NIV)

Esther 2:12 Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):
(BBE NIV)

Esther 2:13 And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.
(BBE)

Esther 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
(See NIV)

Job 31:1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
(See NIV)

Proverbs 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.
(BBE)

Joel 3:3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 2:7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Girl

Girlfriend and Boyfriend

Related Terms

Servant-girl (18 Occurrences)

Girl's (12 Occurrences)

Slave-girl (6 Occurrences)

Slave-girl's (1 Occurrence)

Damsel (43 Occurrences)

Girls (27 Occurrences)

Dish (54 Occurrences)

Maid (57 Occurrences)

Maiden (40 Occurrences)

Python (6 Occurrences)

Bondmaid (18 Occurrences)

Plate (34 Occurrences)

Servant-girls (12 Occurrences)

Philippi (8 Occurrences)

Naarah (3 Occurrences)

Waiting-woman (2 Occurrences)

Miss (7 Occurrences)

Cutters (14 Occurrences)

Children

Seducer

Seduce (8 Occurrences)

Stood (491 Occurrences)

Vessel (118 Occurrences)

Request (248 Occurrences)

Taking (445 Occurrences)

Inheritance (263 Occurrences)

Rose (279 Occurrences)

Share (138 Occurrences)

Payment (168 Occurrences)

Got (764 Occurrences)

Public (99 Occurrences)

Girt (13 Occurrences)

Slave (148 Occurrences)

Seated (252 Occurrences)

Responsible (242 Occurrences)

Needed (59 Occurrences)

Walking (189 Occurrences)

Child (355 Occurrences)

Signs (127 Occurrences)

Young (3454 Occurrences)

Zilpah (7 Occurrences)

Kumkum (1 Occurrence)

Koum (1 Occurrence)

Naaman (19 Occurrences)

Naarath (1 Occurrence)

Undergoing (13 Occurrences)

Owners (19 Occurrences)

Outside (215 Occurrences)

Overcome (300 Occurrences)

Laughing (38 Occurrences)

Leave (341 Occurrences)

Leg (24 Occurrences)

Gateway (40 Occurrences)

Gleaning (10 Occurrences)

Girgasite (1 Occurrence)

Gazing (11 Occurrences)

Women (328 Occurrences)

Wake (34 Occurrences)

Wench (1 Occurrence)

Water-spring (16 Occurrences)

With (66342 Occurrences)

Walked (178 Occurrences)

Interpreted (19 Occurrences)

Isn't (154 Occurrences)

Instantly (39 Occurrences)

Inspired (20 Occurrences)

Intently (16 Occurrences)

Fulfilment (25 Occurrences)

Fortune (7 Occurrences)

Freed (32 Occurrences)

Future (88 Occurrences)

Fortunes (30 Occurrences)

Fortune-telling (1 Occurrence)

Freewoman (4 Occurrences)

Traded (16 Occurrences)

Tonight (23 Occurrences)

Talitha (1 Occurrence)

Translated (15 Occurrences)

Ridiculing (2 Occurrences)

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