ne.qe.vah identifies the female member of human, animal, and sacrificial groups.

The term marks the female member within paired or classified groups: humans in creation, living creatures entering the ark, animals specified for offerings, and persons addressed in legal instructions. The same singular absolute noun form appears across these settings, while the surrounding clauses determine whether the referent is a person or an animal.

1. Female member of a stated group · dominant

   In Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 6:19, the singular absolute noun occurs in male-and-female pairings for humanity and living creatures brought into the ark. In Leviticus 3:1 and Leviticus 4:28, it identifies an animal eligible for an offering, while Numbers 31:15 asks whether every such person was kept alive; Jeremiah 31:22 uses it in the clause about a female encompassing a man.

   Genesis 1:27Genesis 6:19Leviticus 3:1Leviticus 4:28Numbers 31:15Jeremiah 31:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the term with “female,” including paired expressions such as “male and female” and specifications such as “female goat.” These renderings confirm the clauses’ overall classification rather than supplying a separate lexical distinction.