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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Genesis 57 verses
- Genesis 2:22 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- Genesis 2:23 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
- Genesis 3:1 הָ֣/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:2 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
- Genesis 3:4 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
- Genesis 3:6 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֡ה ptcl def.art + n c fs When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:12 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:13 לָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:15 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
- Genesis 3:16 הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 4:19 נָשִׁ֑ים n c fp Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- Genesis 6:2 נָשִׁ֔ים n c fp that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 11:29 נָשִׁ֑ים אֵֽשֶׁת אֵֽשֶׁת n c fp n c fs cs n c fs cs Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
- Genesis 12:11 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
- Genesis 12:14 הָ֣/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- Genesis 12:15 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
- Genesis 12:19 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֖ prep + n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 14:16 הַ/נָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
- Genesis 16:3 אֵֽשֶׁת לְ/אִשָּֽׁה n c fs cs prep + n c fs Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Genesis 18:11 כַּ/נָּשִֽׁים prep det + n c fp Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Genesis 20:3 הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
- Genesis 20:12 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 21:21 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 24:3 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
- Genesis 24:4 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
- Genesis 24:5 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
- Genesis 24:7 אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:8 הָֽ/אִשָּׁה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
- Genesis 24:37 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
- Genesis 24:38 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
- Genesis 24:39 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'
- Genesis 24:40 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
- Genesis 24:44 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs She will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels." Let the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'
- Genesis 24:51 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."
- Genesis 24:67 לְ/אִשָּׁ֖ה prep + n c fs Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
- Genesis 25:1 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
- Genesis 25:20 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Genesis 26:34 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 27:46 אִשָּׁ֨ה n c fs Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
- Genesis 28:1 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Genesis 28:2 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
- Genesis 28:6 אִשָּׁ֑ה אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs n c fs Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 28:9 נָשָׁ֖י/ו לְ/אִשָּֽׁה n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c fs Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
- Genesis 29:28 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
- Genesis 30:4 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
- Genesis 30:9 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 31:35 נָשִׁ֖ים n c fp She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
- Genesis 31:50 נָשִׁים֙ n c fp If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
- Genesis 33:5 הַ/נָּשִׁים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
- Genesis 34:4 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
- Genesis 34:8 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
- Genesis 34:12 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
- Genesis 34:21 לְ/נָשִׁ֔ים prep + n c fp "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
- Genesis 38:6 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- Genesis 38:14 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:20 הָ/אִשָּׁ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
- Genesis 41:45 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Exodus 26 verses
- Exodus 1:19 כַ/נָּשִׁ֛ים prep det + n c fp The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
- Exodus 2:2 הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
- Exodus 2:7 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
- Exodus 2:9 הָ/אִשָּׁ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.
- Exodus 3:22 אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Egyptians.
- Exodus 6:20 לְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep + n c fs Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
- Exodus 6:23 לְ/אִשָּׁ֑ה prep + n c fs Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- Exodus 6:25 לְ/אִשָּׁ֔ה prep + n c fs Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
- Exodus 11:2 וְ/אִשָּׁה֙ conj + n c fs Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
- Exodus 15:20 הַ/נָּשִׁים֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
- Exodus 19:15 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
- Exodus 21:3 אִשָּׁה֙ אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
- Exodus 21:4 אִשָּׁ֔ה הָ/אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 21:22 אִשָּׁ֤ה הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
- Exodus 21:28 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
- Exodus 21:29 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
- Exodus 22:16 לְ/אִשָּֽׁה prep + n c fs "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
- Exodus 26:3 אִשָּׁ֖ה אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs n c fs Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
- Exodus 26:5 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another.
- Exodus 26:6 אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
- Exodus 26:17 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.
- Exodus 35:22 הַ/נָּשִׁ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c fp They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, ear-rings, signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
- Exodus 35:25 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- Exodus 35:26 הַ֨/נָּשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair.
- Exodus 35:29 וְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה conj + n c fs The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
- Exodus 36:6 וְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה conj + n c fs Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.
Leviticus 23 verses
- Leviticus 12:2 אִשָּׁה֙ n c fs "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 13:29 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
- Leviticus 13:38 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;
- Leviticus 15:18 וְ/אִשָּׁ֕ה conj + n c fs If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:19 וְ/אִשָּׁה֙ conj + n c fs "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:25 וְ/אִשָּׁ֡ה conj + n c fs "'If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.
- Leviticus 18:17 אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
- Leviticus 18:18 וְ/אִשָּׁ֥ה conj + n c fs "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
- Leviticus 18:19 אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
- Leviticus 18:22 אִשָּׁ֑ה n c fs "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible.
- Leviticus 18:23 וְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה conj + n c fs "'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
- Leviticus 19:20 אִשָּׁ֜ה n c fs "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 20:13 אִשָּׁ֔ה n c fs If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:14 אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
- Leviticus 20:16 וְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה הָ/אִשָּׁ֖ה conj + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:18 אִשָּׁ֜ה n c fs "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:27 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"
- Leviticus 21:7 אִשָּׁ֨ה וְ/אִשָּׁ֛ה n c fs conj + n c fs "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
- Leviticus 21:13 אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
- Leviticus 21:14 אִשָּֽׁה n c fs A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
- Leviticus 24:10 אִשָּׁ֣ה n c fs The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
- Leviticus 24:11 הָֽ/אִשָּׁ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
- Leviticus 26:26 נָשִׁ֤ים n c fp When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Numbers 26 verses
- Numbers 5:6 אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs "Speak to the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;
- 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 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 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 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 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 25 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 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 22:29 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 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 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 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 8 verses
- 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 40 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 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 13:3 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 13:24 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 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.
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.
