Words That Only Appear Once in the Bible

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking perhaps it was being used as an alternate term for "carriage" or "chariot", or at least, I thought I had seen it used that way somewhere.

It might just depend on the version

"boy" appears only once, too (also in Joel 3:3). "boys" appears twice, once in Gen 25:27 (talking of Jacob and Esau), and once alongside "girls" in Zec 8:5.

The King James usually uses words other than girl like damsel or maiden or young daughter, etc. Other translations use girl more often (ESV uses "girl" 35 times, for e.g.).

For those even more interested:

Judges 9:24: That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.

1 Maccabees 6:40: So part of the king's army being spread upon the high mountains, and part on the valleys below, they marched on safely and in order.

1 Sam 7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.

Acts 5:34: Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space

Esther 1:20: And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

Psalm 62:3: How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Isaiah 33:21: But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

2 Maccabees 4:12: For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat.

1 Maccabees 6:37: And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girt fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.

Romans 16:15: Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

Wisdom 5:10: And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves

2 Maccabees 3:27: And Heliodorus fell suddenly unto the ground, and was compassed with great darkness: but they that were with him took him up, and put him into a litter.

Matthew 21:41: They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

1 Peter 2:2: as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby

Numbers 3:48: and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

1 Samuel 16:16: Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

Ecclesiasticus 31:29: But wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind, with brawling and quarrelling.

Matthew 2:18: In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Ecclesiasticus 25:20: As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

Leviticus 11:29: These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind

Wisdom 16:3: To the end that they, desiring food, might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them lothe even that, which they must needs desire; but these, suffering penury for a short space, might be made partakers of a strange taste.

2 Esdras 16:59: He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters hath he founded it.

Ecclesiasticus 27:23: When thou art present, he will speak sweetly, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and slander thy sayings.

Genesis 43:40: And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Matthew 1:3: and Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram