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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 54 times in 47 verses in '1Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:2 - Now he had two wives H802: the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:4 - And the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, and he would give portions to Peninnah his wife H802 and to all her sons and her daughters;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:15 - But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord, I am a woman H802 [fn]oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - And she said, “Let your servant-woman find favor in your sight.” So the woman H802 went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.

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Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh and turned back and came to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife H802, and Yahweh remembered her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - And Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what is good in your eyes. Remain until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish His word.” So the woman H802 remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:26 - And she said, “Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman H802 who stood here beside you, praying to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife H802 and say, “May Yahweh establish for you a seed from this woman H802 in place of [fn]the one she dedicated to Yahweh.” And they went to their own [fn]home.

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Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women H802 who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

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Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife H802, was with child and about to give birth. And she heard the report that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, so she kneeled down and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:50 - And the name of Saul’s wife H802 was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman H802, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women H802 childless, so shall your mother be childless among women H802.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before Yahweh at Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6

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And it happened as they were coming, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, that the women H802 came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with gladness, and with [fn]musical instruments.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:7 - And the women H802 sang as they [fn]were merry and said,

“Saul has struck his thousands,

And David his ten thousands.”

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Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife H802; only be a man of valor for me and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul thought, “My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:19 - So it happened at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11

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Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife H802, told him, saying, “If you do not make an escape for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - And the priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread [fn]on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women H802.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:5 - And David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women H802 have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will [fn]their vessels be holy?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - So he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women H802, infants and nursing babies; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:3 - (now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s H802 name was Abigail. And the woman H802 was good in insight and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14

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But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife H802, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to [fn]greet our master, and he rushed at them angrily.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:37 - But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife H802 told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39

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Then David heard that Nabal was dead, so he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. Yahweh has also returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent [fn]a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:40 - Then the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel and spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you as his wife H802.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - Then Abigail hurried and arose, and she rode on a donkey, with her five young women who [fn]went about with her; and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:43

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David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:44

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Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife H802, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with his household, even David with his two wives H802, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - And David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman H802 alive, and he took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11 - And David did not leave a man or a woman H802 alive to bring to Gath, saying, “Lest they tell about us, saying, ‘So has David done and so has been his custom all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7 - So Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman H802 who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman H802 who is a medium at En-dor.”

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Then Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman H802 by night; and he said, “Divine for me, please, and bring up for me whom I shall say to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman H802 said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you then laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:11 - Then the woman H802 said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” And he said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12 - And the woman H802 saw Samuel and cried out with a loud voice; and the woman H802 spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - And the king said to her, “Do not be afraid; but what do you see?” And the woman H802 said to Saul, “I see a [fn]divine being coming up out of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - And the woman H802 came to Saul and saw that he was terrified and said to him, “Behold, your servant-woman has listened to your voice, and I have [fn]taken my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:23 - But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” However, his servants together with the woman H802 urged him, and he listened to [fn]them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:24 - And the woman H802 had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly sacrificed it; and she took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:2 - and they took captive the women H802 and all who were in it, both small and great—they did not put anyone to death—and carried them off and went their way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:3 - Then David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives H802 and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:5 - Now David’s two wives H802 had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the [fn]widow H802 of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:18 - So David delivered all that the Amalekites had taken and [fn]delivered his two wives H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - Then all the evil and vile men among those who went with David said, “Because they did not go with [fn]us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have delivered, except to every man his wife H802 and his children, that they may lead them away and depart.”
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