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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.
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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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Strong's Number H802 matches the Hebrew אִשָּׁה ('iššâ),
which occurs 41 times in 35 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘When a man or woman H802 commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife H802 goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - [fn]if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife H802 and she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife H802 but she has not defiled herself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - the man shall then bring his wife H802 to the priest and shall bring as [fn]an offering for her one-tenth of an [fn]ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, a reminder of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - ‘The priest shall then have the woman H802 stand before Yahweh and let the hair of the woman’s H802 head go loose, and he shall place the grain offering of remembrance [fn]in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings curses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - ‘Then the priest shall have her swear an oath and shall say to the woman H802, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into [fn]defilement, being under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings curses;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - (then the priest shall have the woman H802 swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman H802), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - and this water that brings curses shall go into your [fn]stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh fall away.” And the woman H802 shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - ‘Then he shall make the woman H802 drink the water of bitterness that brings curses, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her to cause bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - ‘And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s H802 hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it near to the altar;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman H802 drink the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman H802 will become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - ‘But if the woman H802 has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 -

‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife H802, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife H802, he shall then make the woman H802 stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - ‘Moreover, the man will be free from [fn]guilt, but that woman H802 shall bear her [fn]guilt.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman H802 makes a [fn]special vow, the vow of a [fn]Nazirite, to dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:1 -

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman H802 whom he had taken as a wife (for he had taken a Cushite woman H802);

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - “And why is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives H802 and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:27 - So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; but Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives H802 and their sons and their little ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and he went after the man of Israel into the [fn]tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman H802, through the [fn]body. Then the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:15 - And the name of the Midianite woman H802, who was struck down, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, [fn]who was head of the people of a father’s household in Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59 -

And the name of Amram’s wife H802 was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 -

“Also if a woman H802 makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16 -

These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife H802, and as between a father and his daughter, while she is in her youth in her father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the sons of Israel captured the women H802 of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - “So now, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman H802 who has known man [fn]intimately.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18 - “But all the [fn]girls H802 who have not known man [fn]intimately, [fn]spare for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and of human beings, of the women H802 who had not known man [fn]intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - “Our little ones, our wives H802, our livestock, and all our cattle shall [fn]remain there in the cities of Gilead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - “But if they [fn]marry H802 one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - “This is [fn]what Yahweh has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry H802 whoever is good in their sight; only they must marry H802 within the family of the tribe of their father.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - “And every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife H802 to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:11 - And Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married H802 their uncles’ sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married H802 those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance [fn]remained with the tribe of the family of their father.
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