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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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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

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 3 / 14 (Gen 34:4–Exo 21:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl as a wife H802.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:8 -

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him as a wife H802.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - “Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl as a wife H802.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:21 - “These men are peaceful with us; therefore let them [fn]live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is [fn]large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us as wives H802 and give our daughters to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29 - and they captured and plundered all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives H802, even all that was in the houses.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 -

Esau took his wives H802 from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 -

Then Esau took his wives H802 and his sons and his daughters and all [fn]his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his acquired goods, which he had accumulated in the land of Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:10 - These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Esau’s wife H802 Adah, Reuel the son of Esau’s wife H802 Basemath.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:12 - Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau’s wife H802 Adah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:13 - These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife H802 Basemath.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:14 - These were the sons of Esau’s wife H802 Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and the [fn]granddaughter of Zibeon: [fn]she bore to Esau, Jeush and Jalam and Korah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:17 - These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs [fn]descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Esau’s wife H802 Basemath.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:18 - These are the sons of Esau’s wife H802 Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs [fn]descended from Esau’s wife H802 Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - Then Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and [fn]Hadar became king in his place; and the name of his city was [fn]Pau; and his wife’s H802 name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives H802. And Joseph brought back an evil report about them to their father.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:6 -

Then Judah took a wife H802 for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife H802, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a seed for your brother.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it happened that when he went in to his brother’s wife H802, he wasted it on the ground in order not to give seed to his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 -

And [fn]after a considerable time, Shua’s daughter, the wife H802 of Judah, died. Then Judah was comforted, and he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:14 - So she removed her widow’s garments from herself and covered herself with a [fn]veil and wrapped herself. And she sat at the entrance of [fn]Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife H802.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20 -

Then Judah sent the [fn]young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take the pledge from the woman’s H802 hand, but he did not find her.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 -

And it happened after these events that his master’s wife H802 [fn]set her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he refused and said to his master’s wife H802, “Behold, with me here, my master [fn]does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has given all that he owns into my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 - [fn]There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife H802. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 -

Now it happened that when his master heard the words of his wife H802, which she spoke to him, saying, “[fn]This is what your slave did to me,” his anger burned.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Then Pharaoh named Joseph [fn]Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of [fn]On, as a wife H802. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:27 - “And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife H802 bore me two sons;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - “Now you are commanded, ‘Do this: [fn]take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives H802, and bring your father and come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 -

Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives H802 in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19 -

The sons of Jacob’s wife H802 Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, who came out of his loins, excluding the wives H802 of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - “There they buried Abraham and his wife H802 Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife H802 Rebekah, and there I buried Leah
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - Then the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women H802; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can come to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:2 - And the woman H802 conceived and bore a son; and she saw [fn]that he was [fn]beautiful, so she hid him for three months.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call [fn]a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman H802 took the child and nursed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - “But every woman H802 shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who lives in her house, for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife H802 and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 -

And Amram took his father’s sister Jochebed as a wife H802, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of Amram’s life were 137 years.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:23 -

And Aaron took H802 Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as a wife H802, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 -

And Aaron’s son Eleazar took one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife H802, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - “Speak now in the [fn]hearing of the people so that each man may ask from his neighbor and each H802 woman H802 from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:20 -

And Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women H802 went out after her with tambourines and with [fn]dancing.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife H802 Zipporah, after he had sent her away,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 -

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife H802 to Moses [fn]in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mount of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:6 - And he [fn]sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife H802 and her two sons with her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:15 - And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman H802.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 -

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife H802 or his male slave or his female slave or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:3 - “If he comes [fn]alone, he shall go out [fn]alone; if he is the husband of a wife H802, then his wife H802 shall go out with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - “If his master gives him a wife H802, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife H802 and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out [fn]alone.

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