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Woman

אִשָּׁהStrong’s H0802

ishshah (ish-shah)

Appears in 686 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ishshah is the Hebrew word usually translated “woman”, “wife of” and “wife his”. It appears in 686 verses of the Old Testament.

“He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.”
Daniel 11:17 KJV
Meaning
  1. Woman, wife, femalewoman (opposite of man) · wife (woman married to a man) · female (of animals) · each, every (pronoun)
How it's translated
  • the woman 102
  • wife of 84
  • a woman 83
  • wife his 65
  • a wife 49
  • to a wife 40
  • the women 35
  • women 32

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 132
  • Judges 55
  • 1 Samuel 47
  • 2 Samuel 40
  • Numbers 35
  • Exodus 34

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 686 verses, by book
Ecclesiastes 3
7:267:289:9
Song of Solomon 3
1:85:96:1
Lamentations 3
2:204:105:11
Daniel 2
11:1711:37
Amos 2
4:37:17
Micah 1
2:9
Nahum 1
3:13
Malachi 2
2:142:15
Hebrew dictionary

אִשָּׁה ishshah · woman

: woman 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WOMAN, noun

plural women. [a compound of womb and man.]

  1. The female of the human race, grown to adult years.“And the rib, which the Lord god had taken from the man, made he a woman” Genesis 2:22
  2. A female attendant or servant.
All definitions and other forms of “woman”

    WOMAN, verb intransitive

    To make pliant.

      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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.