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Lexicon :: Strong's H802 - 'iššâ

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אִשָּׁה
Transliteration
'iššâ
Pronunciation
ish-shaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 137a

Strong’s Definitions

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x

The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x
The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

  1. woman, wife, female

    1. woman (opposite of man)

    2. wife (woman married to a man)

    3. female (of animals)

    4. each, every (pronoun)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
STRONGS H802: Abbreviations
אִשָּׁה 775 noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic bdb006102, Sabean אנתֿת etc. DHMZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתְּתָא, אִנְתְּתָא, אִתָּא, bdb006103, Palmyrene, Nabataean אנתתא, Ethiopic bdb006104 Phoenician אשת, Assyrian aššatu COTGloss) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:33 +; construct אֵשֶׁת Genesis 11:29 + (apparently absolute Deuteronomy 21:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Psalm 58:9 but compare Bö§ 728 Ges§ 130. 5); suffix אִשְׁתִּי Genesis 20:11 +; אִשְׁתְּךָ Genesis 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ Psalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁת Ezekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות); נָשִׁים Genesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי Genesis 4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי Genesis 30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; —
1. woman Genesis 3:1, 2; Genesis 12:11 +; opposed to man Genesis 2:22, 23; Exodus 35:29; Exodus 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:2, 5; Deuteronomy 22:22; 1 Samuel 21:5 +; א׳ emphatic a Genuine (or ideal) woman Ecclesiastes 7:28 (|| אדם); simile of men as feeble, timid Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30; note especially הַטַּף בַּנָּשִׁים the children among the women, female children Numbers 31:18 (P); as conceiving Exodus 2:2; Leviticus 12:2; 2 Samuel 11:5 +; travailing Jeremiah 13:21; bearing children Judges 13:24; 1 Kings 3:18; compare Job 14:1; Job 15:14; Job 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isaiah 49:15; אֹרַח כַּנָּשִׁים Genesis 18:11; דֶּרֶח נָשִׁים Genesis 31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת א׳ nursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; זוֺנָה א׳ harlot Joshua 2:1; Joshua 6:22; Judges 11:1; Judges 16:1; 1 Kings 3:16; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 23:44; so זָרָה א׳ Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; מְנָאָ֑פֶת א׳ adulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ Proverbs 6:26), אֵשֶׁת זְנוּנִים Hosea 1:2; נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת foreign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26, 27 (compare Nehemiah 13:23); חֲכָמָה א׳ wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 20:16, etc.; also מִּילֶגֶשׁ א׳ concubine Judges 19:1, 27: אַלְמָנָה א׳ widow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 17:9, 10; נְבִיאָה א׳ prophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע Proverbs 6:24; בְּסִילוּת א׳ Proverbs 9:13; חֵן א׳ Proverbs 11:16; חַיִל א׳ Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10; Ruth 3:11; מִדְיָנִים א׳ Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 25:24; Proverbs 27:15; וָכָ֑עַס מ׳ א׳ Proverbs 21:19.
2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Genesis 2:24, 25; Genesis 3:8, 17; Genesis 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ) Deuteronomy 20:7; Deuteronomy 28:30; בַּעַל (הָ)אִשָּׁה Exodus 21:3, 22; אִישׁ הָאִשָּׁה Judges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה to wife Genesis 2:22; Genesis 12:19; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 34:21 + often (after לָקַח, נָתַן husband or father subject); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה, woman subject) Genesis 20:12; Numbers 36:3, 6 (twice in verse); Numbers 36:11, 12; Deuteronomy 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 13:7; compare Deuteronomy 28:54; נְעוּרֶיךָ א׳ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14, 15; בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ א׳ Malachi 2:14; אֵשֶׁת אָב = step-mother Leviticus 18:8, 11; Leviticus 20:11.
3. Female of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below 4
†4. With distributive & reciprocal sense, מֵאֵת א׳ רְעוּתָהּ each woman from her neighbour Exodus 11:2 (E); compare Ruth 1:8, 9; Jeremiah 9:19; each one, of birds of prey Isaiah 34:15 compare Isaiah 34:16 (strike out Bi Che); of cows (figurative of heartless women of Israel) Amos 4:3; of sheep (figurative of Israel) Zechariah 11:9; & of inanimate things (P, & late) אֶל אֲחֹתָהּ א׳ Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:5, 6, 17 (P) Ezekiel 1:9 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 3:13.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 2:24; 2:25; 3:1; 3:2; 3:8; 3:17; 4:1; 4:17; 4:19; 4:23; 7:2; 11:29; 12:11; 12:18; 12:19; 16:3; 18:11; 20:11; 20:12; 30:26; 31:35; 34:21

Exodus

2:2; 2:7; 11:2; 21:3; 21:22; 22:23; 26:3; 26:5; 26:6; 26:17; 35:29; 36:6

Leviticus

12:2; 18:8; 18:11; 20:11

Numbers

31:18; 36:3; 36:6; 36:11; 36:12

Deuteronomy

7:2; 7:5; 13:7; 20:7; 21:11; 22:19; 22:22; 22:29; 28:30; 28:54

Joshua

2:1; 6:22

Judges

4:4; 11:1; 13:24; 16:1; 19:1; 19:27; 20:4

Ruth

1:8; 1:9; 3:11

1 Samuel

21:5; 28:7

2 Samuel

11:5; 14:2; 14:5; 20:16

1 Kings

3:16; 3:18; 11:1; 11:8; 11:26; 17:9; 17:10; 20:7

Ezra

10:2; 10:10; 10:11; 10:14; 10:17; 10:18; 10:44

Nehemiah

13:23; 13:26; 13:27

Job

14:1; 15:14; 25:4

Psalms

58:9; 128:3

Proverbs

2:16; 5:18; 6:24; 6:26; 6:26; 7:5; 9:13; 11:16; 12:4; 21:9; 21:19; 25:24; 27:15; 30:20; 31:10

Ecclesiastes

7:28

Isaiah

34:15; 34:16; 49:15

Jeremiah

3:3; 9:19; 13:21; 50:37; 51:30

Ezekiel

1:9; 1:23; 3:13; 16:30; 23:44; 23:44; 23:44

Hosea

1:2

Amos

4:3

Zechariah

11:9

Malachi

2:14; 2:14; 2:15

H802

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H802 matches the Hebrew אִשָּׁה ('iššâ),
which occurs 781 times in 686 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 14 (Gen 19:26–Gen 33:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26 - But his wife H802 looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, H802 She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman H802 which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - Now therefore restore the man his wife; H802 for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's H802 sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, H802 and his maidservants; and they bare children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife H802 out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife H802 in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife H802 unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:4 - But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife H802 unto my son Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman H802 will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife H802 unto my son from thence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - And if the woman H802 will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife H802 of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - And Sarah my master's wife H802 bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife H802 to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:38 - But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife H802 unto my son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman H802 will not follow me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife H802 for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:44 - And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman H802 whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:51 - Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, H802 as the LORD hath spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:67

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; H802 and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:1 - Then again Abraham took a wife, H802 and her name was Keturah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, H802 the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:21 - And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, H802 because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife H802 conceived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - And the men of the place asked him of his wife; H802 and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; H802 lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: H802 and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, H802 and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife H802 shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife H802 Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife H802 of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife H802 of the daughters of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife H802 from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife H802 from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife H802 of the daughters of Canaan;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives H802 which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, H802 for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife H802 also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: H802 and Jacob went in unto her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26 - Give me my wives H802 and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17 - Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives H802 upon camels;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women H802 is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50 - If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives H802 beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, H802 and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women H802 and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

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