PRINCESS
prin'-ses:
The Hebrew term is sarah (compare sar, prince, and "Sarah"); it means
(1) a queen (Isaiah 49:23, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) both "queen");
(2) the consort of a king contrasted with his concubines (1 Kings 11:3, "He had seven hundred wives. princesses, and three hundred concubines");
(3) the wife of a prince (Esther 1:18 the "princesses of Persia and Media");
(4) it is metaphorically used of the city of Jerusalem (Lamentations 1:1).
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