This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, A niece or any female descendant ( Genesis 20:12 ; 24:48 ; 28:6 ). Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" ( Isaiah 3:16 ), "daughters of the Philistines" ( 2 Samuel 1:20 ). Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon ( Isaiah 23:12 ). The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" ( Isaiah 37:22 ). The daughters of a tree are its boughs ( Genesis 49:22 ). The "daughters of music" ( Ecclesiastes 12:4 ) are singing women.
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source-manifest/easton— Easton's Bible Dictionary (PD)