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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 49 times in 40 verses in '2Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:26 - “I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
You have been very pleasant to me.
Your love to me was more wonderful
Than the love of women. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:2 - So David went up there, and his two wives H802 also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the [fn]widow H802 of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:3 - and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the [fn]widow H802 of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:5 - and the sixth, Ithream, by David’s wife H802 Eglah. These were born to David at Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:14 - So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife H802 Michal, to whom I was betrothed for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13 - Meanwhile David took more concubines and wives H802 from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:19 - Further, he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, both to men and women, H802 a cake of bread and one of dates and one of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed each to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman H802 bathing; and the woman H802 was very beautiful in appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - So David sent and inquired about the woman. H802 And one said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife H802 of Uriah the Hittite?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:5 - The woman H802 conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am pregnant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in [fn]temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? H802 By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - ‘Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman H802 throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 - Now when the wife H802 of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:27 - When the time of mourning was over, David sent and [fn]brought her to his house and she became his wife; H802 then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - ‘I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives H802 into your [fn]care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife H802 to be your wife, H802 and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - ‘Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife H802 of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ H802

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives H802 before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives H802 in [fn]broad daylight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:15 - So Nathan went to his house. Then the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s [fn]widow H802 bore to David, so that he was very sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:24 - Then David comforted his wife H802 Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and [fn]he named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved him

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - So Joab sent to Tekoa and [fn]brought a wise woman H802 from there and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman H802 who has been mourning for the dead many days;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - Now when the woman H802 of Tekoa [fn]spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself and said, “Help, O king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she [fn]answered, “Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:8 - Then the king said to the woman, H802 “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - The woman H802 of Tekoa said to the king, “O my lord, the king, the iniquity is on me and my father’s house, but the king and his throne are guiltless.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:12 - Then the woman H802 said, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman H802 said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king answered and said to the woman, H802 “Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you.” And the woman H802 said, “Let my lord the king please speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - So the king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman H802 replied, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:27 - To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a woman H802 of beautiful appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16 - So the king went out and all his household [fn]with him. But the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:19 - And the woman H802 [fn]took a covering and spread it over the well’s mouth and scattered grain on it, so that nothing was known.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - Then Absalom’s servants came to the woman H802 at the house and said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman H802 said to them, “They have crossed the brook of water.” And when they searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, H802 and the lives of your concubines,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, H802 the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - Then a wise woman H802 called from the city, “Hear, hear! Please tell Joab, ‘Come here that I may speak with you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - So he approached her, and the woman H802 said, “Are you Joab?” And he answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your maidservant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - “Such is not the case. But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against King David. Only hand him over, and I will depart from the city.” And the woman H802 said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman H802 wisely came to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab also returned to the king at Jerusalem.
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