בת

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *bint-, the /i/ changing to /a/ through Philippi's Law and /n/ assimilating to the following /t/.

בַּת • (bat) f (plural indefinite בָּנוֹת‎, singular construct בַּת־, plural construct בְּנוֹת־‎, masculine counterpart בֶּן‎)

1. daughter
   • Exodus 2:7, with translation of the King James Version:

     ‏וַתֹּאמֶר אֲחֹתוֹ אֶל בַּת פַּרְעֹה‎

     vatómer achotó el bat par'ó

     Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter

2. By analogy to בן‎ – a direct female descendent:

   ‏בת חוה‎ ― bat khavá ― daughter of Eve

3. A girl, a gal
4. (construct only) Used in expressing the age of a woman, a girl, or the referent of a feminine noun: age, aged.

   ‏היא בת שש.‎‎ ― hi bat shesh. ― She is six years old. [literally, a daughter of six]

   • HaTikva

     ‏עוד לא אבדה תקותינו \ התקוה בת שנות אלפים‎

     hatikvah bat shenot ʿalpayim / lihyot ʿam chofshi be'artzeinu

     Our hope is not yet lost / The hope of two thousand years old

• Like other words that start with ב‎,‎ ג‎,‎ ד‎,‎ כ‎,‎ פ‎,‎ or ת‎, this term's initial letter takes a dagesh lene. In older texts, that dagesh is usually dropped when the word is preceded, in the same phrase, by a word ending in a mater lectionis; in modern texts, the dagesh is usually preserved even in such a case. Likewise, in older texts, the dagesh is always dropped when the word is prefixed by an indefinite ב־‎‏,‎ כ־‎‏,‎ or ל־‎‏, or by ו־‎‏; in modern speech, the dagesh is often preserved in such a case. (After the definite ב־‎‏,‎ כ־‎‏,‎ and ל־‎‏, and after the prefixes ה־‎‏,‎ מ־‎‏,‎ and ש־‎‏, there is a dagesh forte, as described in the usage notes for those prefixes.)

• H1323 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979