Lexicon :: Strong's H802 - 'iššâ

Caleb said, “Whoever attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife.”

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

Deborah, a prophetess and the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

“I will gladly go with you,” she said, “but you will receive no honor on the road you are about to take, because the LORD will sell Sisera to a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between King Jabin of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife, Jael, took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.

Most blessed of women is Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite;

she is most blessed among tent-dwelling women.

Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, since he had many wives.

Each of the troops also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire; about a thousand men and women died, including all the men of the Tower of Shechem.

There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and citizens of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

But a woman threw the upper portion of a millstone on Abimelech’s head and fractured his skull.

Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoah; his wife was unable to conceive and had no children.

Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring angel of God. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name.

God listened to Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field, and her husband, Manoah, was not with her.

The angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife needs to do everything I told her.

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD, who did something miraculous[fn] while Manoah and his wife were watching.

Samson went down to Timnah and saw a young Philistine woman there.

Then he went and spoke to the woman, because she seemed right to Samson.

His father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as young men were accustomed to do.

On the fourth[fn] day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s family to death. Did you invite us here to rob us? ”

and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and visited his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

Then the Philistines asked, “Who did this? ”

They were told, “It was Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because he took Samson’s wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines went to her and her father and burned them to death.

Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went to bed with her.

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

The temple was full of men and women; all the leaders of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite staying in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim acquired a woman from Bethlehem in Judah as his concubine.

Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered, “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night.

The men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah: “None of us will give his daughter to a Benjaminite in marriage.”

“What should we do about wives for the survivors? We’ve sworn to the LORD not to give them any of our daughters as wives.”

The congregation sent twelve thousand brave warriors there and commanded them, “Go and kill the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the sword, including women and dependents.

Benjamin returned at that time, and Israel gave them the women they had kept alive from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough for them.