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Strong's #802: 'ishshah (pronounced ish-shaw')

feminine of 376 or 582; irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582):--(adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ּׁ

'ishshâh / nâshı̂ym

1) woman, wife, female

1a) woman (opposite of man)

1b) wife (woman married to a man)

1c) female (of animals)

1d) each, every (pronoun)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H376 or H582



Usage:

This word is used 780 times:

1 Samuel 30:3: "and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their daughters, were taken captives."
1 Samuel 30:5: "And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife"
1 Samuel 30:5: "Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal"
1 Samuel 30:18: "and David rescued wives."
1 Samuel 30:22: "them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife"
2 Samuel 1:26: "hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."
2 Samuel 2:2: "went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail"
2 Samuel 2:2: "the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife the Carmelite."
2 Samuel 3:3: "And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom"
2 Samuel 3:5: "Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron."
2 Samuel 3:8: "that thou chargest me today with a fault concerning this woman?"
2 Samuel 3:14: "saying, Deliver my wife Michal, which I espoused"
2 Samuel 5:13: "took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come"
2 Samuel 6:19: "multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, a"
2 Samuel 11:2: "house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing"
2 Samuel 11:2: "and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very"
2 Samuel 11:3: "And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba,"
2 Samuel 11:3: "Bath-sheba, the daughter the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
2 Samuel 11:5: " And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child."
2 Samuel 11:11: "and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do"
2 Samuel 11:21: "the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast of a millstone upon"
2 Samuel 11:26: " And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned"
2 Samuel 11:27: "her to his house, and she became his wife, him a son. But the thing that"
2 Samuel 12:8: "thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee"
2 Samuel 12:9: "the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children"
2 Samuel 12:9: "with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon."
2 Samuel 12:10: "from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife"
2 Samuel 12:10: "thou hast despised me, and hast taken of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife."
2 Samuel 12:11: "thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor,"
2 Samuel 12:11: "and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun."
2 Samuel 12:15: "the child that wife bore unto David, and it was very sick."
2 Samuel 12:24: "comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with"
2 Samuel 14:2: "and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto"
2 Samuel 14:2: "and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time"
2 Samuel 14:4: " And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, she fell on her face"
2 Samuel 14:5: "I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband"
2 Samuel 14:8: "And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge"
2 Samuel 14:9: " And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity"
2 Samuel 14:12: " Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord"
2 Samuel 14:13: " And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God?"
2 Samuel 14:18: "answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee,"
2 Samuel 14:18: "that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now"
2 Samuel 14:19: "with thee in all this? And the woman answered As thy soul liveth,"
2 Samuel 14:27: "was Tamar: she a woman of a fair countenance."
2 Samuel 15:16: "left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house."
2 Samuel 17:19: " And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth,"
2 Samuel 17:20: "servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz"
2 Samuel 17:20: "Where is Ahimaaz And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water."
2 Samuel 19:5: "of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;"
2 Samuel 20:3: "took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep"









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