Female
θῆλυςStrong’s G2338thēlus
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Thēlus is the Greek word usually translated “female” and “females”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”
Meaning
Usually translated “female” and “females”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- female 4
- females 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 2
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- Galatians 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Romans 1:26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
- Romans 1:27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Greek dictionary
θῆλυς thēlus · female
θῆλυς, -εια, -υ [in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה ;] female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Rom.1:26-27; τὸ θ.., Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Gal.3:28.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “female” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FE'MALE, noun
[Latin femella. See Feminine.]
- Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young.
- Among plants, that which produces fruit; that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers.
All definitions and other forms of “female”
FE'MALE, adjective
- Noting the sex which produces young; not male; as a female bee.
- Pertaining to females; as a female hand or heart; female tenderness.
- Feminine; soft; delicate; weak.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.