אִשָּׁה
woman
also: wife, female fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 344 times (44%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 224 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 139 times (18%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 74 times (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 781 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Numbers 35 verses
- Numbers 5:14 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
- Numbers 5:15 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֮ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
- Numbers 5:18 הָ/אִשָּׁה֮ הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:19 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:21 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֮ לָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, 'Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
- Numbers 5:22 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'
- Numbers 5:24 הָ֣/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
- Numbers 5:25 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
- Numbers 5:26 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
- Numbers 5:27 הָ/אִשָּׁ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
- Numbers 5:28 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Numbers 5:29 אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
- Numbers 5:30 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + n c fs or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
- Numbers 5:31 וְ/הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity."
- Numbers 6:2 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
- Numbers 12:1 הָ/אִשָּׁ֥ה אִשָּׁ֥ה ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
- Numbers 14:3 נָשֵׁ֥י/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?
- Numbers 16:27 וּ/נְשֵׁי/הֶ֥ם conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
- Numbers 25:8 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
- Numbers 25:15 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֧ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
- Numbers 26:59 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
- Numbers 30:3 וְ/אִשָּׁ֕ה conj + n c fs Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
- Numbers 30:16 לְ/אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
- Numbers 31:9 נְשֵׁ֥י n c fp cs The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
- Numbers 31:17 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
- Numbers 31:18 בַּ/נָּשִׁ֔ים prep det + n c fp But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- Numbers 31:35 הַ֨/נָּשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
- Numbers 32:26 נָשֵׁ֔י/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
- Numbers 36:3 לְ/נָשִׁים֒ prep + n c fp If they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
- Numbers 36:6 לְ/נָשִׁ֑ים לְ/נָשִֽׁים prep + n c fp prep + n c fp This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.
- Numbers 36:8 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
- Numbers 36:11 לְ/נָשִֽׁים prep + n c fp for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.
- Numbers 36:12 לְ/נָשִׁ֑ים prep + n c fp They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
Deuteronomy 34 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:34 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
- Deuteronomy 3:6 הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
- Deuteronomy 3:19 נְשֵׁי/כֶ֣ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
- Deuteronomy 5:21 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
- Deuteronomy 13:6 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 17:2 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
- Deuteronomy 17:5 הָ/אִשָּׁ֨ה הָ/אִשָּׁ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
- Deuteronomy 17:17 נָשִׁ֔ים n c fp Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- Deuteronomy 20:7 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
- Deuteronomy 20:14 הַ֠/נָּשִׁים ptcl def.art + n c fp but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 21:11 אֵ֖שֶׁת לְ/אִשָּֽׁה n c fs cs prep + n c fs and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
- Deuteronomy 21:13 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 21:15 נָשִׁ֗ים n c fp If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
- Deuteronomy 22:5 אִשָּׁ֔ה אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs n c fs A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 22:13 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,
- Deuteronomy 22:14 הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
- Deuteronomy 22:16 לְ/אִשָּׁ֖ה prep + n c fs and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
- Deuteronomy 22:19 לְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep + n c fs and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 22:22 אִשָּׁ֣ה הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה וְ/הָ/אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:24 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 22:29 לְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה prep + n c fs then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 22:30 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
- Deuteronomy 24:1 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Deuteronomy 24:3 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
- Deuteronomy 24:4 לְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה prep + n c fs her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 24:5 אִשָּׁ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֥/וֹ n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
- Deuteronomy 25:5 אֵֽשֶׁת לְ/אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs cs prep + n c fs If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
- Deuteronomy 25:11 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
- Deuteronomy 27:20 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 28:30 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 וּ/בְ/אֵ֣שֶׁת conj + prep + n c fs cs The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
- Deuteronomy 29:11 נְשֵׁי/כֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
- Deuteronomy 29:18 אִשָּׁ֞ה n c fs lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
- Deuteronomy 31:12 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
Joshua 9 verses
- Joshua 1:14 נְשֵׁי/כֶ֣ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
- Joshua 2:1 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
- Joshua 2:4 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know whence they were:
- Joshua 6:21 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 6:22 הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.
- Joshua 8:25 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
- Joshua 8:35 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁ֣ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
- Joshua 15:16 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.
- Joshua 15:17 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Judges 55 verses
- Judges 1:12 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.
- Judges 1:13 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
- Judges 3:6 לְ/נָשִׁ֔ים prep + n c fp and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
- Judges 4:4 אִשָּׁ֣ה אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fs n c fs cs Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
- Judges 4:9 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs She said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
- Judges 4:17 אֵ֖שֶּׁת n c fs cs However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 4:21 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
- Judges 5:24 מִ/נָּשִׁ֔ים אֵ֖שֶׁת מִ/נָּשִׁ֥ים prep + n c fp n c fs cs prep + n c fp Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
- Judges 8:30 נָשִׁ֥ים n c fp Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.
- Judges 9:49 וְ/אִשָּֽׁה conj + n c fs All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- Judges 9:51 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁ֗ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 9:53 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
- Judges 9:54 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died.
- Judges 11:1 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
- Judges 11:2 אֵֽשֶׁת הָ/אִשָּׁ֜ה אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs cs ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman.
- Judges 13:2 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֥/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
- Judges 13:3 הָ/אִשָּׁ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.
- Judges 13:6 הָ/אִשָּׁ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me his name:
- Judges 13:9 הָ/אִשָּׁ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her.
- Judges 13:10 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the [other] day.
- Judges 13:11 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + n c fs Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I am.
- Judges 13:13 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
- Judges 13:19 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
- Judges 13:20 וְ/אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- Judges 13:21 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
- Judges 13:22 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
- Judges 13:23 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
- Judges 13:24 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
- Judges 14:1 אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
- Judges 14:2 אִשָּׁ֛ה לְ/אִשָּֽׁה n c fs prep + n c fs He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.
- Judges 14:3 אִשָּׁ֔ה אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs n c fs Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
- Judges 14:7 לָ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep det + n c fs He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
- Judges 14:10 הָ/אִשָּׁ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
- Judges 14:15 לְ/אֵֽשֶׁת prep + n c fs cs It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
- Judges 14:16 אֵ֨שֶׁת n c fs cs Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
- Judges 14:20 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
- Judges 15:1 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ אִשְׁתִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
- Judges 15:6 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 16:1 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
- Judges 16:4 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
- Judges 16:27 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁ֔ים וְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp conj + n c fs Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
- Judges 19:1 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
- Judges 19:26 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.
- Judges 19:27 הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
- Judges 20:4 הָ/אִשָּׁ֥ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
- Judges 21:1 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.
- Judges 21:7 לְ/נָשִׁ֑ים לְ/נָשִֽׁים prep + n c fp prep + n c fp How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
- Judges 21:10 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
- Judges 21:11 אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.
- Judges 21:14 הַ/נָּשִׁ֔ים מִ/נְּשֵׁ֖י ptcl def.art + n c fp prep + n c fp cs Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.
- Judges 21:16 לְ/נָשִׁ֑ים אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fp n c fs Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
- Judges 21:18 נָשִׁ֖ים אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fp n c fs However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
- Judges 21:21 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
- Judges 21:22 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
- Judges 21:23 נָשִׁים֙ n c fp The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.
Ruth 14 verses
- Ruth 1:1 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- Ruth 1:2 אִשְׁתּ֨/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
- Ruth 1:4 נָשִׁים֙ n c fp They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.
- Ruth 1:5 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
- Ruth 1:8 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
- Ruth 1:9 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
- Ruth 3:8 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs It happened at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
- Ruth 3:11 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.
- Ruth 3:14 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.
- Ruth 4:5 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.
- Ruth 4:10 אֵ֨שֶׁת לְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs cs prep + n c fs Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
- Ruth 4:11 הָ/אִשָּׁ֜ה ptcl def.art + n c fs All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
- Ruth 4:13 לְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep + n c fs So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.
- Ruth 4:14 הַ/נָּשִׁים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
1 Samuel 47 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:2 נָשִׁ֔ים n c fp and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- 1 Samuel 1:4 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
- 1 Samuel 1:15 אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 1:18 הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
- 1 Samuel 1:19 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
- 1 Samuel 1:23 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
- 1 Samuel 1:26 הָ/אִשָּׁ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 2:20 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + n c fs Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
- 1 Samuel 2:22 הַ/נָּשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.
- 1 Samuel 4:19 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
- 1 Samuel 14:50 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his host was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
- 1 Samuel 15:3 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
- 1 Samuel 15:33 נָשִׁים֙ מִ/נָּשִׁ֖ים n c fp prep + n c fp Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 18:6 הַ/נָּשִׁ֜ים ptcl def.art + n c fp It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
- 1 Samuel 18:7 הַ/נָּשִׁ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.
- 1 Samuel 18:17 לְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep + n c fs Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.
- 1 Samuel 18:19 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
- 1 Samuel 18:27 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
- 1 Samuel 19:11 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
- 1 Samuel 21:4 מֵ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
- 1 Samuel 21:5 אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be holy?
- 1 Samuel 22:19 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- 1 Samuel 25:3 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ וְ/הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
- 1 Samuel 25:14 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed at them.
- 1 Samuel 25:37 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
- 1 Samuel 25:39 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:40 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:42 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:43 לְ/נָשִֽׁים prep + n c fp David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.
- 1 Samuel 25:44 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
- 1 Samuel 27:3 נָשָׁ֔י/ו אֵֽשֶׁת n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
- 1 Samuel 27:9 וְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה conj + n c fs David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
- 1 Samuel 27:11 וְ/אִשָּׁ֜ה conj + n c fs David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 28:7 אֵ֣שֶׁת אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs n c fs cs Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. His servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at En-dor.
- 1 Samuel 28:8 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever I shall name to you.
- 1 Samuel 28:9 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֜ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
- 1 Samuel 28:11 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? He said, Bring me up Samuel.
- 1 Samuel 28:12 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ הָ/אִשָּׁ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? for you are Saul.
- 1 Samuel 28:13 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
- 1 Samuel 28:21 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.
- 1 Samuel 28:23 הָ֣/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.
- 1 Samuel 28:24 וְ/לָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה conj + prep det + n c fs The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread of it:
- 1 Samuel 30:2 הַ/נָּשִׁ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c fp and had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, both small and great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
- 1 Samuel 30:3 וּ/נְשֵׁי/הֶ֛ם conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
- 1 Samuel 30:5 נְשֵֽׁי אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fp cs n c fs cs David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
- 1 Samuel 30:18 נָשָׁ֖י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
- 1 Samuel 30:22 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, and said, Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.
2 Samuel 40 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:26 נָשִֽׁים n c fp I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant have you been to me: Your love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.
- 2 Samuel 2:2 נָשָׁ֑י/ו אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
- 2 Samuel 3:3 אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fs cs and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
- 2 Samuel 3:5 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 3:8 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
- 2 Samuel 3:14 אִשְׁתִּ/י֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
- 2 Samuel 5:13 וְ/נָשִׁים֙ conj + n c fp David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
- 2 Samuel 6:19 אִשָּׁה֒ n c fs He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.
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“woman” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun אשה (ʼishshâh). Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “wife” and “female”. It appears 686 verses across 33 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:22. It shares a root with איש, איש and אישון. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
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About this word
Strong's H802 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
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- 686
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 686 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #60
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 60 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 686 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 282 verses · 41%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 267 verses · 39%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 137 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Wife 257×, Woman 163×, Wives 96×
- American Standard Version†: Wife 183×, Woman 152×, Women 84×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Wife 242×, Woman 151×, Wives 88×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Woman 213×, Wife 209×, Women 88×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H802 across 778† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 94 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H802 across 775† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 122 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H802 across 712† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 62 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 60 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H802 across 803† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 44 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. woman Gn 3:1, 2; 12:11 +; opp. man 2:22, 23 Ex 35:29; 36:6; Dt 17:2, 5; 22:22; 1 S 21:5 +; א׳ emphat. a genuine (or ideal) woman Ec 7:28 (‖ אדם); sim. of men as feeble, timid Je 50:37; 51:30; note especially הַטַּף בַּנָּשִׁים the children among the women, female children Nu 31:18 (P); as conceiving Ex 2:2; Lv 12:2; 2 S 11:5 +; travailing Je 13:21; bearing children Ju 13:24; 1 K 3:18; cf. Jb 14:1; 15:14; 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Is 49:15; אֹרַח כַּנָּשִׁים Gn 18:11; דֶּרֶךְ נָשִׁים 31:35; with adj., or app., א׳מֵינֶקֶת nursing woman, nurse Ex 2:7; א׳ זוֹנָה harlot Jos 2:1; 6:22; Ju 11:1; 16:1; 1 K 3:16; Pr 6:26; Je 3:3 Ez 16:30; 23:44; so א׳ זָרָה Pr 2:16; 7:5; cf. also Ez 23:44 supr.; א׳ מְנָאָ֑פֶת adulteress Pr 30:20 (cf. אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ 6:26), אֵשֶׁת זְנוּנִים Ho 1:2; נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֹת foreign women 1 K 11:1, 8; Ezr 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Ne 13:26, 27 (cf. v 23); א׳ חֲכָמָה wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 S 14:2; 20:16, etc.; also א׳ פִּילֶגֶשׁ concubine Ju 19:1, 27: א׳ אַלְמָנָה widow 2 S 14:5; 1 K 11:26; 17:9, 10; א׳ נְבִיאָה prophetess Ju 4:4; also cstr. bef. noun of quality אֵשֶׁתרָ֑ע Pr 6:24; א׳ כְּסִילוּת 9:13; א׳ חֵן 11:16; א׳ חַיִל 12:4; 31:10; Ru 3:11; א׳ מִדְיָנִים Pr 21:9; 25:24; 27:15; א׳ מ׳ וָכָ֑עַס 21:19. e.g. Genesis 3:1
- 2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually cstr. or sf.) Gn 2:24, 25; 3:8, 17; 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ) Dt 20:7; 28:30; בַּעַל (הָ)אִשָּׁה Ex 21:3, 22; אִישׁ הָאִשָּׁה Ju 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה to wife Gn 12:19; 16:3; 34:21 + often (after לָקַח, נָתַן husband or father subj.); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה, woman subj.) Gn 20:12; Nu 36:3, 6(×2), 11, 12; Dt 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife cf. 1; cstr. in phr. אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶ֑ךָ Dt 13:7 cf. 28:54; א׳ נְעוּרֶיךָ Pr 5:18; Mal 2:14, 15; א׳ בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ v 14; אֵשֶׁת אָב = step-mother Lv 18:8, 11; 20:11. e.g. Genesis 2:24
- 3. Female of animals Gn 7:2(×2); v. also sub 4. e.g. Genesis 7:2
- 4. With distrib. & recipr. sense, א׳ מֵאֵת רְעוּתָהּ each woman from her neighbour Ex 11:2 (E); cf. Ru 1:8, 9; Je 9:19; each one, of birds of prey Is 34:15 cf. v 16 (del. Bi Che); of cows (fig. of heartless women of Isr.) Am 4:3; of sheep (fig. of Isr.) Zc 11:9; & of inanimate things (P, & late) א׳ אֶל אֲחֹתָהּ Ex 26:3(×2), 5, 6, 17 (P) Ez 1:9 (del. Co) v 23; 3:13. e.g. Exodus 11:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.f. woman, wife, female (Arabic أُنْثَى, Sab. אנתֿת etc. DHMZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתְּתָא, אִנְתְּתָא, אִתָּא, ܐܰܢ̱ܬܬܴܐ, Palm. Nab. אנתתא, Ethiopic አንስት Ph. אשת, Assyrian aššatu COTGloss)—א׳ abs. Gn 2:23 +; cstr. אֵשֶׁת Gn 11:29 + (appar. abs. Dt 21:11; 1 S 28:7 ψ 58:9 but cf. Bö§ 728 Ges§ 130, 5); sf. אִשְׁתִּי Gn 20:11 +; אִשְׁתְּךָ Gn 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ ψ 128:3), etc.; Pl. †אִשֹּׁת Ez 23:44 (Co לעשׂות); נָשִׁים Gn 4:19 +; cstr. נְשֵׁי Gn 4:23 +; sf. נָשַׁי Gn 30:26; 1 K 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם Ex 22:23 +, etc.;—
II. v. sub III. אנשׁ. אִשֶּׁה v. sub אֵשׁ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from איש (ʼîysh) (H376) — man.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אִשָּׁה
- v. איש,, const. אֵשֶׁת, woman, wife. Pes. VIII, 1. Ab. Zar. 25ᵇ א׳ כלי זיינה עליה woman carries her weapon with her, is protected against murder by gentiles (who would rather assault her innocence). Ib. א׳ חשובה a woman of high rank (influential). Ib. אִשְתּוֹ משמרתו his wife’s presence guards him from wrong-doing; a. fr.—Pl. (נָשׁוֹת) נָשִׁים q. v.
אִשֶּׁה
- burnt-offering, v. אִישֶּׁה.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 238 distinct written forms H802 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 178 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H802, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- איש ʼîysh H377 to be a man
- אישון ʼîyshôwn H380 pupil
- אישחיל ʼÎysh-Chayil H381 a mighty man, valiant man
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אישבשת ʼÎysh-Bôsheth H378 Ishbosheth
- אישהוד ʼÎyshᵉhôwd H379 Ishod
- אישטוב ʼÎysh-Ṭôwb H382 Ish-tob
- אשבעל ʼEshbaʻal H792 Eshbaal
- בןימיני Ben-yᵉmîynîy H1145 Benjamite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 662 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 686 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:22
- Exodus 1:19
- Leviticus 12:2
- Numbers 5:6
- Deuteronomy 2:34
- Joshua 1:14
- Judges 1:12
- Ruth 1:1
- 1 Samuel 1:2
- 2 Samuel 1:26
- 1 Kings 2:17
- 2 Kings 4:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
