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 80 verses
- Genesis 2:24 בְּ/אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 2:25 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:8 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:17 אִשְׁתֶּ/ךָ֒ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:20 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
- Genesis 3:21 וּ/לְ/אִשְׁתּ֛/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
- Genesis 4:1 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."
- Genesis 4:17 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 4:23 לְ/נָשָׁ֗י/ו נְשֵׁ֣י prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp cs Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 4:25 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 6:18 וְ/אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֥ וּ/נְשֵֽׁי conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + n c fp cs But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 7:2 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ וְ/אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
- Genesis 7:7 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֧/וֹ וּ/נְשֵֽׁי conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c fp cs Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:13 וְ/אֵ֣שֶׁת נְשֵֽׁי conj + n c fs cs n c fp cs In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;
- Genesis 8:16 וְ/אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֛ וּ/נְשֵֽׁי conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + n c fp cs "Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 8:18 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֥/וֹ וּ/נְשֵֽׁי conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c fp cs Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
- 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 11:31 אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fs cs Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.
- Genesis 12:5 אִשְׁתּ֜/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
- 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 12:12 אִשְׁתּ֣/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
- Genesis 12:17 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
- Genesis 12:18 אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֖ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- 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 12:20 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
- Genesis 13:1 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֧/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
- Genesis 16:1 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- 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 17:15 אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֔ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
- Genesis 17:19 אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֗ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
- Genesis 18:9 אִשְׁתֶּ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."
- Genesis 18:10 אִשְׁתֶּ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 19:15 אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֜ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:16 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
- Genesis 19:26 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Genesis 20:2 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Genesis 20:7 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 20:11 אִשְׁתִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
- Genesis 20:14 אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abimelech took sheep and oxen, men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife to him.
- Genesis 20:17 אִשְׁתּ֛/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
- Genesis 20:18 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
- Genesis 23:19 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 24:15 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:36 אֵ֨שֶׁת n c fs cs Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
- Genesis 25:10 אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
- Genesis 25:21 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Genesis 26:7 לְ/אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ אִשְׁתִּ֔/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look on.
- Genesis 26:8 אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
- Genesis 26:9 אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 26:10 אִשְׁתֶּ֔/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
- Genesis 26:11 וּ/בְ/אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- 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 29:21 אִשְׁתִּ֔/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
- Genesis 30:26 נָשַׁ֣/י n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cs Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."
- Genesis 31:17 נָשָׁ֖י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
- Genesis 32:22 נָשָׁי/ו֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
- Genesis 34:29 נְשֵׁי/הֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
- Genesis 36:2 נָשָׁ֖י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
- Genesis 36:6 נָ֠שָׁי/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his cattle, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
- Genesis 36:10 אֵ֣שֶׁת אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs n c fs cs these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
- Genesis 36:12 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:13 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:14 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
- Genesis 36:17 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:18 אֵ֣שֶׁת אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs n c fs cs These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:39 אִשְׁתּ֤/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
- Genesis 37:2 נְשֵׁ֣י n c fp cs This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
- Genesis 38:8 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
- Genesis 38:9 אֵ֤שֶׁת n c fs cs Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
- Genesis 38:12 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
- Genesis 39:7 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
- Genesis 39:8 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 39:9 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
- Genesis 39:19 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 44:27 אִשְׁתִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
- Genesis 45:19 וְ/לִ/נְשֵׁי/כֶ֔ם conj + prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
- Genesis 46:5 נְשֵׁי/הֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
- Genesis 46:19 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 46:26 נְשֵׁ֣י n c fp cs All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
- Genesis 49:31 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
Exodus 9 verses
- Exodus 4:20 אִשְׁתּ֣/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.
- Exodus 18:2 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
- Exodus 18:5 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
- Exodus 18:6 וְ/אִ֨שְׁתְּ/ךָ֔ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
- Exodus 20:17 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
- 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 21:5 אִשְׁתִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'
- Exodus 22:24 נְשֵׁי/כֶם֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Exodus 32:2 נְשֵׁי/כֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."
Leviticus 9 verses
- Leviticus 18:8 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:11 אֵ֤שֶׁת n c fs cs "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. "'
- Leviticus 18:14 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.
- Leviticus 18:15 אֵ֤שֶׁת n c fs cs "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:16 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:20 אֵ֨שֶׁת֙ n c fs cs "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
- Leviticus 20:10 אֵ֣שֶׁת אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs n c fs cs "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:11 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:21 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Numbers 10 verses
- Numbers 5:12 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,
- Numbers 5:14 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
- Numbers 5:15 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֮ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
- Numbers 5:30 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 14:3 נָשֵׁ֥י/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?
- Numbers 16:27 וּ/נְשֵׁי/הֶ֥ם conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
- Numbers 26:59 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
- Numbers 30:16 לְ/אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
- Numbers 31:9 נְשֵׁ֥י n c fp cs The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
- Numbers 32:26 נָשֵׁ֔י/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
Deuteronomy 12 verses
- Deuteronomy 3:19 נְשֵׁי/כֶ֣ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
- Deuteronomy 5:21 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
- Deuteronomy 13:6 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 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 22:24 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 22:30 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
- Deuteronomy 24:5 אִשָּׁ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֥/וֹ n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
- Deuteronomy 25:5 אֵֽשֶׁת לְ/אִשָּׁ֖ה n c fs cs prep + n c fs If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
- Deuteronomy 25:11 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
- Deuteronomy 27:20 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 וּ/בְ/אֵ֣שֶׁת conj + prep + n c fs cs The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
- Deuteronomy 29:11 נְשֵׁי/כֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 20 verses
- 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 4:17 אֵ֖שֶּׁת n c fs cs However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 4:21 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
- Judges 5:24 מִ/נָּשִׁ֔ים אֵ֖שֶׁת מִ/נָּשִׁ֥ים prep + n c fp n c fs cs prep + n c fp Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
- Judges 11:2 אֵֽשֶׁת הָ/אִשָּׁ֜ה אִשָּׁ֥ה n c fs cs ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman.
- Judges 13:2 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֥/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
- Judges 13:11 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 13:19 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
- Judges 13:20 וְ/אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- Judges 13:21 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
- Judges 13:22 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
- Judges 13:23 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
- Judges 14:15 לְ/אֵֽשֶׁת prep + n c fs cs It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
- Judges 14:16 אֵ֨שֶׁת n c fs cs Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
- Judges 14:20 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
- Judges 15:1 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ אִשְׁתִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
- Judges 15:6 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 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 21:21 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
- Judges 21:22 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
Ruth 5 verses
- Ruth 1:1 וְ/אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- Ruth 1:2 אִשְׁתּ֨/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
- Ruth 3:11 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.
- Ruth 4:5 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.
- Ruth 4:10 אֵ֨שֶׁת לְ/אִשָּׁ֗ה n c fs cs prep + n c fs Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
1 Samuel 16 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:4 אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
- 1 Samuel 1:19 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
- 1 Samuel 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 4:19 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
- 1 Samuel 14:50 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his host was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
- 1 Samuel 19:11 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
- 1 Samuel 25:3 אִשְׁתּ֖/וֹ וְ/הָ/אִשָּׁ֤ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
- 1 Samuel 25:14 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed at them.
- 1 Samuel 25:37 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
- 1 Samuel 25:44 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
- 1 Samuel 27:3 נָשָׁ֔י/ו אֵֽשֶׁת n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
- 1 Samuel 28:7 אֵ֣שֶׁת אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs n c fs cs Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. His servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at En-dor.
- 1 Samuel 30:3 וּ/נְשֵׁי/הֶ֛ם conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
- 1 Samuel 30:5 נְשֵֽׁי אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fp cs n c fs cs David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
- 1 Samuel 30:18 נָשָׁ֖י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
- 1 Samuel 30:22 אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, and said, Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.
2 Samuel 14 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:2 נָשָׁ֑י/ו אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
- 2 Samuel 3:3 אֵ֖שֶׁת n c fs cs and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
- 2 Samuel 3:5 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 3:14 אִשְׁתִּ/י֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
- 2 Samuel 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 11:11 אִשְׁתִּ֑/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
- 2 Samuel 11:26 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
- 2 Samuel 12:8 נְשֵׁ֤י n c fp cs I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
- 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 12:11 נָשֶׁ֨י/ךָ֙ נָשֶׁ֔י/ךָ n c fp cs + sfx pers 2ms n c fp cs + sfx pers 2ms This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
- 2 Samuel 12:15 אֵֽשֶׁת n c fs cs Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
- 2 Samuel 12:24 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
- 2 Samuel 19:5 נָשֶׁ֔י/ךָ n c fp cs + sfx pers 2ms Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
1 Kings 16 verses
- 1 Kings 9:16 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
- 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 11:4 נָשָׁי/ו֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:8 נָשָׁ֖י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- 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 14:2 לְ/אִשְׁתּ֗/וֹ אֵ֣שֶׁת prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
- 1 Kings 14:4 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
- 1 Kings 14:5 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.
- 1 Kings 14:6 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.
- 1 Kings 14:17 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
- 1 Kings 20:3 וְ/נָשֶׁ֧י/ךָ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2ms Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.
- 1 Kings 20:5 וְ/נָשֶׁ֥י/ךָ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2ms The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben Hadad, saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
- 1 Kings 20:7 לְ/נָשַׁ֤/י prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cs Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him.
- 1 Kings 21:5 אִשְׁתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?
- 1 Kings 21:7 אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- 1 Kings 21:25 אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
2 Kings 4 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 5:2 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
- 2 Kings 22:14 אֵ֣שֶׁת n c fs cs So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
- 2 Kings 24:15 נְשֵׁ֨י n c fp cs He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
1 Chronicles 12 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:50 אִשְׁתּ֤/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
- 1 Chronicles 2:24 וְ/אֵ֤שֶׁת conj + n c fs cs After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
- 1 Chronicles 2:29 אֵ֥שֶׁת n c fs cs The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.
- 1 Chronicles 3:3 אִשְׁתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
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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).
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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.
