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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:

2 Samuel 20:16: "Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say,"
2 Samuel 20:17: "And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I"
2 Samuel 20:21: "him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto"
2 Samuel 20:22: " Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off"
1 Kings 2:17: "say thee nay,) that he give Abishag the Shunammite to wife."
1 Kings 2:21: "be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife."
1 Kings 3:16: "Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood"
1 Kings 3:17: "And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman"
1 Kings 3:17: "my lord, I and this woman dwell house; and I was delivered of a child"
1 Kings 3:18: "day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we"
1 Kings 3:19: "And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid"
1 Kings 3:22: "And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead"
1 Kings 3:26: "Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for"
1 Kings 4:11: "which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:"
1 Kings 4:15: "Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:"
1 Kings 9:16: "it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife."
1 Kings 11:1: "loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,"
1 Kings 11:3: "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines:"
1 Kings 11:3: "and three hundred concubines: and his wives his heart."
1 Kings 11:4: "when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after"
1 Kings 11:8: "did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods."
1 Kings 11:19: "in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife of his own wife, the sister"
1 Kings 11:19: "him to wife of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen."
1 Kings 11:26: "was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king."
1 Kings 14:2: "thou be not to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold,"
1 Kings 14:2: "And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou"
1 Kings 14:4: "And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came"
1 Kings 14:5: "unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask"
1 Kings 14:6: "at the door, that he said, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another?"
1 Kings 14:17: "And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came"
1 Kings 16:31: "the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal"
1 Kings 17:9: "behold, I have commanded woman there to sustain"
1 Kings 17:10: "of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called"
1 Kings 17:17: "these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick;"
1 Kings 17:24: " And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that"
1 Kings 20:3: "Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest,"
1 Kings 20:5: "Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;"
1 Kings 20:7: "for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied"
1 Kings 21:5: "But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why"
1 Kings 21:7: "And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern"
1 Kings 21:25: "whom Jezebel his wife stirred up."
2 Kings 4:1: "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto"
2 Kings 4:1: "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto"
2 Kings 4:8: "Shunem, where was a great woman; him to eat bread. And so it was,"
2 Kings 4:17: " And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha"
2 Kings 5:2: "a little maid; and she waited wife."
2 Kings 6:26: "upon the wall, there cried a woman unto Help, my lord,"
2 Kings 6:28: "unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give"
2 Kings 6:30: "heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes;"
2 Kings 8:1: "Then spoke Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life,"









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