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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:

Judges 13:24: " And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson: and the child"
Judges 14:1: "went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines."
Judges 14:2: "and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters"
Judges 14:2: "of the daughters now therefore get her for me to wife."
Judges 14:3: "and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people,"
Judges 14:3: "thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson"
Judges 14:7: "And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well."
Judges 14:10: "So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast;"
Judges 14:15: "day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband,"
Judges 14:16: "And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest"
Judges 14:20: "But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend."
Judges 15:1: "harvest, that Samson visited his wife and he said,"
Judges 15:1: "and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father"
Judges 15:6: "he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up,"
Judges 16:1: "to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto"
Judges 16:4: "And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name"
Judges 16:27: "Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there;"
Judges 16:27: "about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport."
Judges 19:1: "of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah."
Judges 19:26: "Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house"
Judges 19:27: "to go his way: the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house,"
Judges 20:4: "And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came"
Judges 21:1: "us give unto Benjamin to wife."
Judges 21:7: "How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not"
Judges 21:7: "that we will not give to wives?"
Judges 21:10: "and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women"
Judges 21:11: "every male, and every woman by man."
Judges 21:14: "at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women"
Judges 21:14: "them wives which they had saved alive of the women of the women and yet so"
Judges 21:16: "said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women"
Judges 21:16: "for wives for them that remain, seeing the women out of Benjamin?"
Judges 21:18: "may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children"
Judges 21:18: "saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin."
Judges 21:21: "the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go"
Judges 21:22: "we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not"
Judges 21:23: "did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced,"
Ruth 1:1: "to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."
Ruth 1:2: "of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons"
Ruth 1:4: "And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other"
Ruth 1:5: "died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons"
Ruth 1:8: "daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house: deal"
Ruth 1:9: "grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up"
Ruth 3:8: "that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet."
Ruth 3:11: "doth know that thou art a virtuous woman."
Ruth 3:14: "Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor."
Ruth 4:5: "thou must buy it also of the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up"
Ruth 4:10: "Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up"
Ruth 4:10: "the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up of the dead upon"
Ruth 4:11: "The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel"
Ruth 4:13: "Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD"









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