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:
Genesis 27:46: "of Heth: Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth,"
Genesis 28:1: "him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of Canaan."
Genesis 28:2: "thy mother's father; and take thee a wife of the daughters"
Genesis 28:6: "and sent him away to Padan-aram, him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed"
Genesis 28:6: "and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters"
Genesis 28:9: "Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath of Ishmael"
Genesis 28:9: "son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife."
Genesis 29:21: "Laban, Give me my wife, for my days that I may go in"
Genesis 29:28: "him Rachel to wife"
Genesis 30:4: "him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto"
Genesis 30:9: "Zilpah her maid, her Jacob to wife."
Genesis 30:26: "Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go:"
Genesis 31:17: "and set his sons and his wives upon camels;"
Genesis 31:35: "I cannot rise up thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched,"
Genesis 31:50: "my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, man"
Genesis 32:22: "and took his two wives, and his two womenservants,"
Genesis 33:5: "his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who"
Genesis 34:4: "me this to wife."
Genesis 34:8: "for your daughter: give her him to wife."
Genesis 34:12: "unto me: but give the damsel to wife."
Genesis 34:21: "for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters."
Genesis 34:29: "their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that"
Genesis 36:2: "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan;"
Genesis 36:6: "And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons"
Genesis 36:10: "Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, the son of Bashemath"
Genesis 36:10: "the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau."
Genesis 36:12: "were the sons of Adah Esau's wife."
Genesis 36:13: "of Bashemath Esau's wife."
Genesis 36:14: "the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush,"
Genesis 36:17: "are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife."
Genesis 36:18: "are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam,"
Genesis 36:18: "the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife."
Genesis 36:39: "and the name of his city and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred,"
Genesis 37:2: "and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto"
Genesis 38:6: "And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar."
Genesis 38:8: "Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up to thy brother."
Genesis 38:9: "he went in his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give"
Genesis 38:12: "And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted,"
Genesis 38:14: "was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife."
Genesis 38:20: "of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found"
Genesis 39:7: "these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes"
Genesis 39:8: "and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not"
Genesis 39:9: "thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this"
Genesis 39:19: "heard the words of his wife, which she spoke unto"
Genesis 41:45: "name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath of Poti-pherah"
Genesis 44:27: "us, Ye know that my wife bore"
Genesis 45:19: "out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father,"
Genesis 46:5: "Jacob their father, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh"
Genesis 46:19: "The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin."
Genesis 46:26: "besides Jacob's wives, all the souls were threescore"
