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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The wife of one's son.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

See RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY.

Greek

3565. numphe -- a bride, a young woman
... a young woman. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: numphe Phonetic Spelling:
(noom-fay') Short Definition: a bride, daughter-in-law Definition: (a ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3618. kallah -- daughter-in-law, bride
... kallah. 3619 . daughter-in-law, bride. Transliteration: kallah Phonetic Spelling:
(kal-law') Short Definition: bride. ... bride, daughter-in-law, spouse. ...
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8559. Tamar -- daughter-in-law of Judah, also two Israelite women ...
... 8558, 8559. Tamar. 8560 . daughter-in-law of Judah, also two Israelite
women, also a place South of the Dead Sea. Transliteration ...
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Library

Naomi is an Instance of a Widow Receiving Back from Her Daughter ...
... Concerning Widows. Chapter VI. Naomi is an instance of a widow receiving
back from her daughter-in-law the fruits of� Naomi is ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vi naomi is an.htm

The Right to Privacy
... "The new daughter-in-law[2] is coming! The new daughter-in-law is coming!". ...
"Wouldn't you like to come and see the new daughter-in-law?" he asks politely. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 5 the right to.htm

Brought up Thus Modestly and Soberly, and Made Subject Rather by ...
... and meekness, that she of her own accord discovered to her son the meddling tongues
whereby the domestic peace betwixt her and her daughter-in-law had been ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ix brought up thus.htm

The Devotion of Ruth
... she told her mother-in-law where she had worked, and said, "The name of the man
with whom I worked to-day is Boaz." Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the devotion of ruth.htm

Why, in the Account of Terah's Emigration, on his Forsaking the ...
... For the narrative runs thus: "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran,
his son's son, and Sarah his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 13 why in the account.htm

We Will Pass on to Clear up Another of the Charges, if Only He ...
Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus. . ...
/.../we will pass on to.htm

He Describes the Praiseworthy Habits of his Mother; Her Kindness ...
... that she voluntarily disclosed to her son the tongues of the meddling servants,
whereby the domestic peace between herself and her daughter-in-law had been ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter ix he describes the praiseworthy.htm

Religious Zeal.
... We do not know her name. We only hear of her this once, but by the one little incident
recorded of her, we know what she was. "The daughter-in-law of Eli ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/lxv religious zeal.htm

Ruth, the Gleaner
... should help her. He would begin by helping the sweet-faced daughter-in-
law who had chanced to come gleaning upon his land. So he ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/steedman/the babe in the bulrushes/ruth the gleaner.htm

I am Sending You as Lambs among Wolves: be Ye Now Wise as Serpents ...
... to his son, and the son to his father; and the mother to her daughter, and the daughter
to her mother; and the mother in law to her daughter in law, and the ...
/.../hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section xiii i am sending.htm

Thesaurus

Daughterinlaw
Daughterinlaw. Daughter, Daughterinlaw. Daughter-in-law . Int. ... See RELATIONSHIPS,
FAMILY. Daughter, Daughterinlaw. Daughter-in-law . Reference Bible.
/d/daughterinlaw.htm - 6k

Daughter-in-law (16 Occurrences)
Daughter-in-law. Daughterinlaw, Daughter-in-law. Daughters . Noah Webster's
Dictionary ... Daughterinlaw, Daughter-in-law. Daughters . Reference Bible.
/d/daughter-in-law.htm - 12k

Mother-in-law (16 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter
against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ...
/m/mother-in-law.htm - 11k

Na'omi (21 Occurrences)
... Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her,
who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the ...
/n/na'omi.htm - 11k

Naomi (25 Occurrences)
... Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her,
who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the ...
/n/naomi.htm - 17k

Tamar (28 Occurrences)
... (2.) The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er ... 1 Chronicles 2:4 Tamar
his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. ...
/t/tamar.htm - 21k

Daughter (320 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. ... Leviticus 18:15 "'You shall not uncover
the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. ...
/d/daughter.htm - 43k

Divided (102 Occurrences)
... father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter
against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in...
/d/divided.htm - 37k

Attacking (73 Occurrences)
... Luke 12:53 father against son and son against father; mother attacking daughter
and daughter her mother, mother-in-law her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law...
/a/attacking.htm - 30k

Pregnant (33 Occurrences)
... Genesis 38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying,
"Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover ...
/p/pregnant.htm - 16k

Bible Concordance

Daughter-in-law (16 Occurrences)

Matthew 10:35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
(WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 12:53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
(WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 38:16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:15 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 20:12 "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 2:20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen."
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 2:22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field."
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 4:15 He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 4:19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 2:4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 22:11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Micah 7:6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Daughter-In-Law

Daughter-In-Law: Filial: Instance of, Ruth

Daughter-In-Law: Unfilial: Prophecy of

Related Terms

Daughter-in-law (16 Occurrences)

Mother-in-law (16 Occurrences)

Na'omi (21 Occurrences)

Naomi (25 Occurrences)

Tamar (28 Occurrences)

Daughter (320 Occurrences)

Divided (102 Occurrences)