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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 38 times in 34 verses in '1Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:17 - Then he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not [fn]turn you away, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife H802.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:21 - So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife H802.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:16 -

Then two women H802 who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:17 - And the one woman H802 said, “Oh, my lord, [fn]this woman H802 and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:18 - “And it happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman H802 also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19 - “And this woman’s H802 son died in the night because she lay on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:22 - Then the other woman H802 said, “No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” But [fn]the first woman said, “No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - Then the woman H802 whose son was the living one spoke to the king, for [fn]she was deeply stirred with compassion over her son and said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!”

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Ben-abinadab, in all [fn]the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife H802);

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:15

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Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and discernment and knowledge to do any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife H802.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 -

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women H802 along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women H802,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:3 - And he had 700 wives H802—princesses—and 300 concubines, and his wives H802 turned his heart away.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - Now it happened at the time that Solomon was old, his wives H802 turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - Thus also he did for all his foreign wives H802, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:19 - And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh. So he gave him as a wife H802 the sister of his own wife H802, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 -

Now Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also [fn]raised his hand against the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - And Jeroboam said to his wife H802, “Arise now, and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife H802 of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4 -

Then Jeroboam’s wife H802 did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes had [fn]set because of his old age.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5 - Now Yahweh had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife H802 of Jeroboam is coming to [fn]inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:6

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Now it happened as Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, that he said, “Come in, wife H802 of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 -

Then Jeroboam’s wife H802 arose and went away and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 -

Now it happened, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians as a wife H802, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and remain there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a [fn]jar, that I may drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17

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Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman H802, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24 - Then the woman H802 said to Elijah, “Now I know this: that you are a man of God and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3 - ‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives H802 and children are also mine.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5 - Then the messengers returned and said, “Thus says [fn]Ben-hadad, ‘Surely, I sent to you saying, “You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives H802 and your children,”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7

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Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Please know and see how this man is looking for trouble; for he sent to me for my wives H802 and my children and my silver and my gold, and I withheld nothing from him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5

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But Jezebel his wife H802 came to him and said to him, “How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating [fn]food?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - And Jezebel his wife H802 said to him, “Do you now exercise kingship over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be merry; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25

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Surely there was no one who sold himself to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife H802 incited.

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