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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:

Deuteronomy 25:11: "together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near"
Deuteronomy 27:20: "be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt."
Deuteronomy 28:30: "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not"
Deuteronomy 28:54: "his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, of his children which"
Deuteronomy 29:11: "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer"
Deuteronomy 29:18: "there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,"
Deuteronomy 31:12: "Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that"
Joshua 1:14: " Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave"
Joshua 2:1: "even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab,"
Joshua 2:4: " And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus,"
Joshua 6:21: "that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old,"
Joshua 6:22: "the country, Go into the harlot's and bring out thence"
Joshua 6:22: "and bring out thence the woman, and all that"
Joshua 8:25: "that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand,"
Joshua 8:35: "before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant"
Joshua 15:16: "my daughter to wife."
Joshua 15:17: "him Achsah to wife."
Judges 1:12: "my daughter to wife."
Judges 1:13: "him his daughter to wife."
Judges 3:6: "And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served"
Judges 4:4: "And Deborah, a prophetess, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged"
Judges 4:4: "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged"
Judges 4:9: "the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose,"
Judges 4:17: "to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: there was peace"
Judges 4:21: "Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took"
Judges 5:24: "Blessed above women above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed"
Judges 5:24: "Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed"
Judges 5:24: "the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women shall she be above women in the tent."
Judges 8:30: "for he had many wives."
Judges 9:49: "died also, about a thousand men and women."
Judges 9:51: "fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut"
Judges 9:53: "And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head,"
Judges 9:54: "thy sword, and slay men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through,"
Judges 11:1: "of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead"
Judges 11:2: "And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out"
Judges 11:2: "wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out"
Judges 11:2: "thou art the son of a strange woman."
Judges 13:2: "of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife and bore"
Judges 13:3: "of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now,"
Judges 13:6: " Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came"
Judges 13:9: "came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah"
Judges 13:10: " And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold,"
Judges 13:11: "arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said"
Judges 13:11: "that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I"
Judges 13:13: "Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware."
Judges 13:19: "and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on."
Judges 13:20: "ascended of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on"
Judges 13:21: "to Manoah and to his wife. Manoah knew that"
Judges 13:22: "And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen"
Judges 13:23: " But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received"









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