This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate,
1) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6).
2) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Sam. 1:20).
3) 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 (Isa. 23:12).
4) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22).
5) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22).
6) The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.