Lexicon ishshah: woman, wife, female Original Word: נָשִׁיםPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: ishshah Phonetic Spelling: (ish-shaw') Short Definition: wife NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionwoman, wife, female NASB Translationadulteress* (2), any woman (1), childbearing* (1), each (3), each one (1), each woman (1), every (1), everyone (1), female (3), girls* (1), harem* (5), harlot's* (2), harlot* (3), marriage (9), married (3), married* (6), marry* (3), none* (1), one (8), widow (7), wife (274), wife and his wives (2), wife and the wives (1), wife or a woman (1), wife's (8), wives (100), woman (203), woman of the wives (1), woman's (6), women (104), women as wives (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אִשָּׁה775 noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic  , Sabean אנתֿת etc. DHM ZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתְּתָא, אִנְתְּתָא, אִתָּא,  , Palmyrene, Nabataean אנתתא, Ethiopic  Phoenician אשת, Assyrian aššatu COT Gloss) — ׳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. אנת (the root of the pronoun 2 person in Shemitic:  ,  anta; feminine  ,  ant£; Biblical Aramaic Kt אַנְתָּה (masculine), ᵑ7 אַנְתְּ & אַתְּ (both masculine & feminine); Syriac  , feminine  , the n being written but not pronounced; Assyrian atta, feminine atti-e Dl§ 55 a, the nt being merged in the double t; Hebrew similarly. Plural  ,  feminine  ,  Aramaic אַנְתּוּן,  , feminine אַתִּין,  ; Assyrian attunu). II. אנשׁ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew III. אנשׁ, אִשָּׁח). Strong's adulteress, each, every, female, many, none, one, together, Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 'enowsh) -- (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English. see HEBREW 'iysh see HEBREW 'enowsh see HEBREW 'enowsh |
