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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:

Psalms 58:8: "which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun."
Psalms 109:9: "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Psalms 128:3: " Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants"
Proverbs 2:16: "To deliver thee from the strange woman, thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;"
Proverbs 5:18: "be blessed: and rejoice with the wife with the wife of thy youth."
Proverbs 6:24: "To keep thee from the evil woman, woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."
Proverbs 6:26: "For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress"
Proverbs 6:26: "a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt life."
Proverbs 6:29: "he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent."
Proverbs 6:32: "But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul."
Proverbs 7:5: "That they may keep thee from the strange woman, woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words."
Proverbs 7:10: "And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart."
Proverbs 9:13: "A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing."
Proverbs 11:16: "A gracious woman retaineth honor: and strong men retain riches."
Proverbs 11:22: "in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion."
Proverbs 12:4: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones."
Proverbs 14:1: "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
Proverbs 18:22: "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the LORD."
Proverbs 19:13: "is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping."
Proverbs 19:14: "are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD."
Proverbs 21:9: "a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman woman in a wide house."
Proverbs 21:19: "in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. woman."
Proverbs 25:24: "in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman than with a brawling woman and in a wide house."
Proverbs 27:15: "in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."
Proverbs 30:20: "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith,"
Proverbs 31:3: "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings."
Proverbs 31:10: "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Proverbs 31:30: "is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised."
Ecclesiastes 7:26: "more bitter than death the woman, whose heart"
Ecclesiastes 7:28: "man among a thousand but a woman among all those have I not"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days"
Song of Solomon 1:8: "thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed"
Song of Solomon 5:9: "is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved,"
Song of Solomon 6:1: "is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek"
Isaiah 3:12: "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err,"
Isaiah 4:1: "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,"
Isaiah 13:16: "to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
Isaiah 19:16: "day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because"
Isaiah 27:11: "When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for"
Isaiah 32:9: "Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear"
Isaiah 34:15: "shall the vultures be gathered, every one with her mate."
Isaiah 34:16: "no one of these shall fail, none shall want"
Isaiah 45:10: "unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?"
Isaiah 49:15: " Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea,"
Isaiah 54:6: "For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife"
Isaiah 54:6: "forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, thou wast refused, saith"
Jeremiah 3:1: "a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become"
Jeremiah 3:3: "and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed."
Jeremiah 3:20: "Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house"
Jeremiah 5:8: "neighed after his neighbor's wife."









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