H802. ishshah

אִשָּׁה‎₇₇₅ noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic , Sabean אנתֿת‎ etc. DHM^{ZK 1884, 360}, Aramaic אִתָּא אִנְתְּתָא, אִתְּתָא,‎, , 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 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ‎ Psalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁת‎ Ezekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות‎); נָשִׁים‎ Genesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי‎ 4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי‎ 30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם‎ Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; —

1 woman Genesis 3:1-2, 12:11 +; opposed to man 2:22-23, Exodus 35:29; 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:2, 5; 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; 51:30; note especially בַּנָּשִׁים הַטַּף‎ 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; 15:14; 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isaiah 49:15; כַּנָּשִׁים אֹרַח‎ Genesis 18:11; נָשִׁים דֶּרֶח‎ 31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת׳א‎ nursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; ׳א זוֺנָה‎ harlot Joshua 2:1; 6:22; Judges 11:1; 16:1; 1 Kings 3:16; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; 23:44; so ׳א זָרָה‎ Proverbs 2:16; 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; ׳א מְנָאָ֑פֶת‎ adulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אִישׁ אֵשֶׁת‎ 6:26), זְנוּנִים אֵשֶׁת‎ Hosea 1:2; נָכְרִיּוֺת נָשִׁים‎ foreign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26-27, (compare 13:23); ׳א חֲכָמָה‎ wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 20:16, etc.; also ׳א מִּילֶגֶשׁ‎ concubine Judges 19:1, 27: ׳א אַלְמָנָה‎ widow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 17:9-10, ׳א נְבִיאָה‎ prophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality רָ֑ע אֵשֶׁת‎ Proverbs 6:24; ׳א בְּסִילוּת‎ 9:13; ׳א חֵן‎ 11:16; ׳א חַיִל‎ 12:4; 31:10; Ruth 3:11; ׳א מִדְיָנִים‎ Proverbs 21:9; 25:24; 27:15; ׳א ׳מ וָכָ֑עַס‎ 21:19.

2 Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Genesis 2:24-25, 3:8, 17; 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ‎) Deuteronomy 20:7; 28:30; (הָ)אִשָּׁה בַּעַל‎ Exodus 21:3, 22; הָאִשָּׁה אִישׁ‎ Judges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה‎ to wife Genesis 2:22; 12:19; 16:3; 34:21 + often (after נָתַן לָקַח,‎ husband or father subject); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה‎, woman subject) 20:12; Numbers 36:3, 6 (twice in verse); 36:11-12, Deuteronomy 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase חֵיקֶ֑ךָ אֵשֶׁת‎ 13:7; compare 28:54; ׳א נְעוּרֶיךָ‎ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14-15, ׳א בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ‎ 2:14; אָב אֵשֶׁת‎ = step-mother Leviticus 18:8, 11; 20:11.

3 Female of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below 4

4 With distributive & reciprocal sense, רְעוּתָהּ ׳א מֵאֵת‎ 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 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) ׳א אֲחֹתָהּ אֶל‎ Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); 26:5-6, 17 (P) Ezekiel 1:9 (strike out Co) 1:23; 3:13.

אנת‎ (the root of the pronoun 2 person in Shemitic: , anta; feminine , ant£; Biblical Aramaic Kt אַנְתָּה‎ (masculine), אַנְתְּ ᵑ7‎ & 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. אִשָּׁח אנשׁ,‎).