Woman

Usually translated “wife”, “woman” and “women”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• wife 60
• woman 59
• a woman 29
• women 27
• a wife 14
• wives 11
• of women 5
• the woman 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Luke 40
• Matthew 30
• 1 Corinthians 30
• John 21
• Acts 19
• Revelation 19

15 books in all.

• Woman (ishshah)
• Maiden (naarah)
• Maiden (almah)
• Maidservant (paidiskē)

• 1 Timothy 2:10In contextBut (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
• 1 Timothy 2:11In contextLet the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
• 1 Timothy 2:12In contextBut I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
• 1 Timothy 2:14In contextAnd Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
• 1 Timothy 3:2In contextA bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
• 1 Timothy 3:11In contextEven so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “woman” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.