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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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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 7 / 14 (Jdg 13:21–1Sa 1:19)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:21 - Now the angel of the LORD did not appear to Manoah or his wife H802 again. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:22 - So Manoah said to his wife, H802 “We will surely die, for we have seen God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife H802 said to him, “If the LORD had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear things like this at this time.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - Then the woman H802 gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child grew up and the LORD blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman H802 in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - So he came [fn]back and told his father and [fn]mother, “I saw a woman H802 in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman H802 among the daughters of your [fn]relatives, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife H802 from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she [fn]looks good to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - So he went down and talked to the woman; H802 and she [fn]looked good to Samson.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - Then his father went down to the woman; H802 and Samson made a feast there, for the young men customarily did this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - Then it came about on the [fn]fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, H802 “Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Samson’s wife H802 wept before him and said, “You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have propounded a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; so should I tell you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - But Samson’s wife H802 was given to his companion who had been his [fn]friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife H802 with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife H802 in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because [fn]he took his wife H802 and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot H802 there, and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:4 - After this it came about that he loved a woman H802 in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women, H802 and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And about 3,000 men and women H802 were on the roof looking on while Samson was amusing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite [fn]staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - [fn]As the day began to dawn, the woman H802 came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - When her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, then behold, his concubine was lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the woman H802 who was murdered, answered and said, “I came with my concubine to spend the night at Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin [fn]in marriage.” H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - “What shall we do for wives H802 for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?” H802

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent 12,000 of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women H802 and the little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - “This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman H802 who has [fn]lain with a man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women H802 whom they had kept alive from the women H802 of Jabesh-gilead; yet they [fn]were not enough for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives H802 for those who are left, since the women H802 are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - “But we cannot give them wives H802 of our daughters.” For the sons of Israel had sworn, saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife H802 to Benjamin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to [fn]take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards and each of you shall catch his wife H802 from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “It shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, ‘Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife H802 in battle, [fn]nor did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives H802 according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - Now it came about in the days when the judges [fn]governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab [fn]with his wife H802 and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, H802 Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - They took for themselves Moabite women H802 as wives; H802 the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:5 - Then [fn]both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman H802 was bereft of her two children and her husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8 - And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each H802 of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9 - “May the LORD grant that you may find rest, each H802 in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:8 - It happened in the middle of the night that the man was startled and [fn]bent forward; and behold, a woman H802 was lying at his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:11 - “Now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you [fn]ask, for all my people in the [fn]city know that you are a woman H802 of excellence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she lay at his feet until morning and rose before one could recognize another; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman H802 came to the threshing floor.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow H802 of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - “Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow H802 of Mahlon, to be my wife H802 in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the [fn]court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - All the people who were in the [fn]court, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman H802 who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and may you achieve [fn]wealth in Ephrathah and [fn]become famous in Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:13 - So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, H802 and he went in to her. And the LORD [fn]enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - Then the women H802 said to Naomi, “Blessed is the LORD who has not left you without a [fn]redeemer today, and may his name [fn]become famous in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:2 - 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 Box 1Sa 1:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:15 - But Hannah replied, “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 the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - She said, “Let your maidservant 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:19 - Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah [fn]had relations with Hannah his wife, H802 and the LORD remembered her.

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