Woman
נְשִׁיןStrong’s H5389nashin (na-shin)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nashin is the Aramaic word usually translated “wives their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.”
Meaning
- Woman
How it's translated
- and wives their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
נְשִׁין nashin · woman
1) woman wife
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.]
- 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
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.