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).
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Judges 40 verses
- 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 21:23 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 10 verses
- 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 3:14 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 4:10 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 33 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 1:15 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 1:23 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 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 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 25:39 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 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 28:8 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.
2 Samuel 29 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 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 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.
- 2 Samuel 11:2 אִשָּׁ֛ה וְ/הָ֣/אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
- 2 Samuel 11:3 לָֽ/אִשָּׁ֑ה אֵ֖שֶׁת prep det + n c fs n c fs cs David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
- 2 Samuel 11:5 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- 2 Samuel 11:21 אִשָּׁ֡ה n c fs who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
- 2 Samuel 11:27 לְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep + n c fs When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
- 2 Samuel 12:9 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c fs Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
- 2 Samuel 12:10 אֵ֨שֶׁת֙ לְ/אִשָּֽׁה n c fs cs prep + n c fs Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
- 2 Samuel 14:2 אִשָּׁ֣ה כְּ/אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs prep + n c fs Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 14:4 הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
- 2 Samuel 14:5 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
- 2 Samuel 14:8 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.
- 2 Samuel 14:9 הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
- 2 Samuel 14:12 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on.
- 2 Samuel 14:13 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
- 2 Samuel 14:18 הָ֣/אִשָּׁ֔ה הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
- 2 Samuel 14:19 הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;
- 2 Samuel 14:27 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.
- 2 Samuel 15:16 נָשִׁ֛ים n c fp The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
- 2 Samuel 17:19 הָ/אִשָּׁ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
- 2 Samuel 17:20 הָ/אִשָּׁ֜ה הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 20:3 נָשִׁ֣ים n c fp David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
- 2 Samuel 20:16 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"
- 2 Samuel 20:17 הָ/אִשָּׁ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do hear.
- 2 Samuel 20:21 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
- 2 Samuel 20:22 הָ/אִשָּׁ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
1 Kings 20 verses
- 1 Kings 2:17 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs He said, Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
- 1 Kings 2:21 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.
- 1 Kings 3:16 נָשִׁ֥ים n c fp Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him.
- 1 Kings 3:17 הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה וְ/הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
- 1 Kings 3:18 הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
- 1 Kings 3:19 הָ/אִשָּׁ֥ה ptcl def.art + n c fs This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
- 1 Kings 3:22 הָ/אִשָּׁ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
- 1 Kings 3:26 הָ/אִשָּׁה֩ ptcl def.art + n c fs Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.
- 1 Kings 4:11 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
- 1 Kings 4:15 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
- 1 Kings 7:14 אִשָּׁה֩ n c fs He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
- 1 Kings 11:1 נָשִׁ֧ים n c fp Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Kings 11:3 נָשִׁ֗ים נָשָׁ֖י/ו n c fp n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
- 1 Kings 11:19 אִשָּׁה֙ אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
- 1 Kings 11:26 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.
- 1 Kings 16:31 אִשָּׁ֜ה n c fs It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
- 1 Kings 17:9 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.
- 1 Kings 17:10 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- 1 Kings 17:17 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
- 1 Kings 17:24 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
2 Kings 14 verses
- 2 Kings 4:1 וְ/אִשָּׁ֣ה מִ/נְּשֵׁ֣י conj + n c fs prep + n c fp cs Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
- 2 Kings 4:8 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
- 2 Kings 4:17 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
- 2 Kings 6:26 וְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה conj + n c fs As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
- 2 Kings 6:28 הָ/אִשָּׁ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
- 2 Kings 6:30 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
- 2 Kings 8:1 הָ/אִשָּׁה֩ ptcl def.art + n c fs Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
- 2 Kings 8:2 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
- 2 Kings 8:3 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
- 2 Kings 8:5 הָ/אִשָּׁ֜ה הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
- 2 Kings 8:6 לָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה prep det + n c fs When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
- 2 Kings 8:18 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 14:9 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
- 2 Kings 23:7 הַ/נָּשִׁ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
1 Chronicles 8 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:18 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
- 1 Chronicles 2:26 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
- 1 Chronicles 2:35 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5 נָשִׁ֑ים n c fp Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- 1 Chronicles 7:4 נָשִׁ֖ים n c fp With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
- 1 Chronicles 7:15 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 14:3 נָשִׁ֖ים n c fp David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 16:3 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins.
2 Chronicles 11 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 אִשָּׁ֞ה n c fs the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Yahweh has come.
- 2 Chronicles 11:18 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
- 2 Chronicles 11:21 נָשָׁי/ו֙ נָשִׁ֤ים n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
- 2 Chronicles 11:23 נָשִֽׁים n c fp He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.
- 2 Chronicles 13:21 נָשִׁ֖ים n c fp But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
- 2 Chronicles 15:13 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
- 2 Chronicles 21:6 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 24:3 נָשִׁ֣ים n c fp Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- 2 Chronicles 25:18 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 28:8 נָשִׁים֙ n c fp The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
Ezra 10 verses
- Ezra 2:61 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
- Ezra 10:1 וְ/נָשִׁים֙ conj + n c fp Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
- Ezra 10:2 נָשִׁ֥ים n c fp Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
- Ezra 10:3 נָשִׁ֜ים n c fp Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
- Ezra 10:10 נָשִׁ֣ים n c fp Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
- Ezra 10:11 הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
- Ezra 10:14 נָשִׁ֤ים n c fp Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched.
- Ezra 10:17 נָשִׁ֣ים n c fp They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- Ezra 10:18 נָשִׁ֣ים n c fp Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
- Ezra 10:44 נָשִׁ֣ים נָשִׁ֔ים n c fp n c fp All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Nehemiah 7 verses
- Nehemiah 7:63 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
- Nehemiah 8:2 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
- Nehemiah 8:3 וְ/הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book of the law.
- Nehemiah 12:43 הַ/נָּשִׁ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c fp They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
- Nehemiah 13:23 נָשִׁים֙ n c fp In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
- Nehemiah 13:26 הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
- Nehemiah 13:27 נָשִׁ֥ים n c fp Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
Esther 15 verses
- Esther 1:9 נָשִׁ֑ים n c fp Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:17 הַ/נָּשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp For this deed of the queen will come abroad to all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.
- Esther 1:20 הַ/נָּשִׁ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp When the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
- Esther 2:3 הַ/נָּשִׁ֔ים הַ/נָּשִׁ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, to the custody of Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them;
- Esther 2:8 הַ/נָּשִֽׁים ptcl def.art + n c fp So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
- Esther 2:9 הַ/נָּשִֽׁים ptcl def.art + n c fp The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her things for her purification, with her portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king's house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women.
- Esther 2:11 הַ/נָּשִׁ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.
- Esther 2:12 הַ/נָּשִׁים֙ הַ/נָּשִֽׁים ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after it had been done to her as prescribed for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),
- Esther 2:13 הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp then in this wise came the maiden to the king: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.
- Esther 2:14 הַ/נָּשִׁים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in to the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.
- Esther 2:15 הַ/נָּשִׁ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
- Esther 2:17 הַ/נָּשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
- Esther 3:13 וְ/נָשִׁים֙ conj + n c fp Letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esther 4:11 וְ/אִשָּׁ֡ה conj + n c fs All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
- Esther 8:11 וְ/נָשִׁ֑ים conj + n c fp in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [their] little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Job 5 verses
- Job 14:1 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 15:14 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
- Job 31:9 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
- Job 42:15 נָשִׁ֥ים n c fp In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
Proverbs 13 verses
- Proverbs 2:16 מֵ/אִשָּׁ֣ה prep + n c fs To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
- Proverbs 6:26 אִשָּׁ֥ה וְ/אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs conj + n c fs cs For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
- Proverbs 6:32 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
- Proverbs 7:5 מֵ/אִשָּׁ֣ה prep + n c fs That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
- Proverbs 7:10 אִ֭שָּׁה n c fs Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.
- Proverbs 11:22 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, Is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
- Proverbs 14:1 נָ֭שִׁים n c fp Every wise woman builds her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
- Proverbs 18:22 אִ֭שָּׁה n c fs Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.
- Proverbs 19:13 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Proverbs 19:14 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
- Proverbs 30:20 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
- Proverbs 31:3 לַ/נָּשִׁ֣ים prep det + n c fp Don't give your strength to women, Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
- Proverbs 31:30 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Ecclesiastes 3 verses
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
- Ecclesiastes 7:28 וְ/אִשָּׁ֥ה conj + n c fs which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Song of Solomon 3 verses
- Song of Solomon 1:8 בַּ/נָּשִׁ֑ים prep det + n c fp If you don't know, most beautiful among women, Follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
- Song of Solomon 5:9 בַּ/נָּשִׁ֑ים prep det + n c fp How is your beloved better than another beloved, You fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, That you do so adjure us? Beloved
- Song of Solomon 6:1 בַּ/נָּשִׁ֑ים prep det + n c fp Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved
Isaiah 10 verses
- Isaiah 3:12 וְ/נָשִׁ֖ים conj + n c fp As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.
- Isaiah 4:1 נָשִׁ֜ים n c fp Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."
- Isaiah 19:16 כַּ/נָּשִׁ֑ים prep det + n c fp In that day shall the Egyptians be like women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Hosts, which he shakes over them.
- Isaiah 27:11 נָשִׁ֕ים n c fp When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
- Isaiah 32:9 נָשִׁים֙ n c fp Rise up, you women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.
- Isaiah 34:15 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.
- Isaiah 34:16 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them.
- Isaiah 45:10 וּ/לְ/אִשָּׁ֖ה conj + prep + n c fs Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?"
- Isaiah 49:15 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
- Isaiah 54:6 כְ/אִשָּׁ֧ה וְ/אֵ֧שֶׁת prep + n c fs conj + n c fs cs For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God.
Jeremiah 21 verses
- Jeremiah 3:3 אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 3:20 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 6:11 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
- Jeremiah 6:12 וְ/נָשִׁ֖ים conj + n c fp Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.
About this entry
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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.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H802 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 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).
View all 686 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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.
