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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Daughter-in-Law
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
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DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (νύμφη).—The Greek word is presumably derived from the lost root νύβω, Lat nubo, ‘to cover,’ inasmuch as the bride was brought veiled to her bridegroom. Although the word applies to married women in general, its associated idea is that of youth. Hence its antithesis with πενθερά, the mother-in-law (Matthew 10:35, (Luke 12:53). The son usually brought his bride to his father’s house, where she was subject to the father’s wife, as was the son to the father and the daughter to the mother (Matthew 10:35, Luke 12:53).
Henry E. Dosker.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Daughter-in-Law'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/d/daughter-in-law.html. 1906-1918.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Daughter-in-Law'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/d/daughter-in-law.html. 1906-1918.
