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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:

Ruth 4:14: " And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not"
1 Samuel 1:2: "And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah:"
1 Samuel 1:4: "offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons portions:"
1 Samuel 1:15: "and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I"
1 Samuel 1:18: "find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat,"
1 Samuel 1:19: "knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered"
1 Samuel 1:23: "establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck"
1 Samuel 1:26: "liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood thee here, praying"
1 Samuel 2:20: "blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed"
1 Samuel 2:20: "thee seed this woman for the loan which is lent"
1 Samuel 2:22: "and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation."
1 Samuel 4:19: "And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings"
1 Samuel 14:50: "And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain"
1 Samuel 15:3: "them not; but slay both man and woman, infant"
1 Samuel 15:33: "said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless"
1 Samuel 15:33: "so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces"
1 Samuel 18:6: "from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out"
1 Samuel 18:7: " And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David"
1 Samuel 18:17: "daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant"
1 Samuel 18:19: "unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife."
1 Samuel 18:27: "him Michal his daughter to wife."
1 Samuel 19:11: "him in the morning: David's wife told him, saying, If thou save"
1 Samuel 21:4: "bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. from women."
1 Samuel 21:5: "the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three"
1 Samuel 22:19: "he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children"
1 Samuel 25:3: "of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding,"
1 Samuel 25:3: "and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, countenance:"
1 Samuel 25:14: "of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold,"
1 Samuel 25:37: "when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these"
1 Samuel 25:39: "And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife."
1 Samuel 25:40: "sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife."
1 Samuel 25:42: "the messengers of David, and became his wife."
1 Samuel 25:43: "of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives."
1 Samuel 25:44: "Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son which"
1 Samuel 27:3: "and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife."
1 Samuel 27:3: "with his household, with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess,"
1 Samuel 27:9: "and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away and the oxen, and the asses,"
1 Samuel 27:11: "saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest"
1 Samuel 28:7: "Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to"
1 Samuel 28:7: "said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor."
1 Samuel 28:8: "him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine"
1 Samuel 28:9: " And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what"
1 Samuel 28:11: "Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up"
1 Samuel 28:12: " And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman"
1 Samuel 28:12: "she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spoke Saul, saying,"
1 Samuel 28:13: "for what sawest thou? And the woman said Saul, I saw"
1 Samuel 28:21: " And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled,"
1 Samuel 28:23: "eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened So he arose"
1 Samuel 28:24: " And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour,"
1 Samuel 30:2: "And had taken the women captives, And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either"









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