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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 2 / 14 (Gen 19:26–Gen 33:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26 - Then his wife H802, from behind him, looked back, 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.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman H802 whom you have taken, for she is [fn]married.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - “So now, return the man’s wife H802, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, “Because I said, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - “Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife H802;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham and returned his wife H802 Sarah to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife H802 and his maidservants, so that they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For Yahweh had utterly shut all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - And he [fn]lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife H802 for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife H802 in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife H802 for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:4 - but you will go to my land and to my kin, and take a wife H802 for my son Isaac.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - And the servant said to him, “Suppose the woman H802 is not willing to follow me to this land; should I indeed take your son back to the land from where you came?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kin, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your seed I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife H802 for my son from there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - “But if the woman H802 is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only do not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 -

And before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife H802 of Abraham’s brother Nahor, was coming out with her jar on her shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - “Now Sarah my master’s wife H802 bore a son to my master [fn]in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - “And my master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife H802 for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I [fn]live;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:38 - but you shall go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife H802 for my son.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - “Then I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman H802 does not follow me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - “And he said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and will make your journey successful, and you will take a wife H802 for my son from my family and from my father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:44 - and she will say to me, “You drink, and I will draw for your camels also”; she is the woman H802 whom Yahweh has decided upon for my master’s son.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:51 - “Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife H802 of your master’s son, as Yahweh has spoken.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:1 -

Now Abraham took another wife H802, [fn]whose name was Keturah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the [fn]Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the [fn]Aramean, to be his wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:21 - And Isaac entreated Yahweh on behalf of his wife H802 because she was barren; and Yahweh [fn]was moved by his entreaty. So Rebekah his wife H802 conceived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - Then the men of the place asked about his wife H802. And he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife H802,” thinking, “lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful in appearance.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - Now it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was [fn]caressing his wife H802 Rebekah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife H802! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife H802, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - So Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife H802 shall surely be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 -

And Esau was forty years old, and he took as a wife H802 Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of [fn]living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife H802 from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife H802 from the daughters of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - “Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife H802 from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

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And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife H802 from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife H802 from the daughters of Canaan,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife H802, besides the wives H802 that he had.

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Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife H802, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him her servant-woman Bilhah as a wife H802, and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 -

Then Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, so she took her servant-woman Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26 - “Give me my wives H802 and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you yourself know my service which I have [fn]rendered you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17 -

Then Jacob arose and put his children and his wives H802 upon camels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women H802 is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the [fn]household idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50 - “If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives H802 besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see, God is witness between [fn]you and me.”

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And he arose that same night and took his two wives H802 and his two servant-women and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women H802 and the children and said, “[fn]Who are these with you?” And he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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