אִשָּׁהʼishshâh
woman, wife, female
Pronunciation: ish-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H802
Meanings
1. woman (Genesis 3:1; Genesis 3:2; Genesis 12:11)
2. Wife (Genesis 2:24; Genesis 2:25; Genesis 3:8)
3. Female (Genesis 7:2)
4. With distributive & reciprocal sense (Exodus 11:2; Ruth 1:8; Ruth 1:9)
Same root
- אִישׁʼîysh · H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
- אֱנוֹשׁʼĕnôwsh · H582a man in general (singly or collectively)
- בְּלִיַּעַלbᵉlîyaʻal · H1100without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
Where it appears
Appears 781 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
- Genesis 2:23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’”
- Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
- Genesis 2:25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
- Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
- Genesis 3:2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
See every passage
- Genesis 132 verses
- Exodus 34 verses
- Leviticus 32 verses
- Numbers 35 verses
- Deuteronomy 34 verses
- Joshua 9 verses
- Judges 55 verses
- Ruth 14 verses
- 1 Samuel 47 verses
- 2 Samuel 40 verses
- 1 Kings 34 verses
- 2 Kings 17 verses
- 1 Chronicles 20 verses
- 2 Chronicles 18 verses
- Ezra 11 verses
- Nehemiah 10 verses
- Esther 18 verses
- Job 8 verses
- Psalms 3 verses
- Proverbs 24 verses
- Ecclesiastes 3 verses
- Song of Solomon 3 verses
- Isaiah 11 verses
- Jeremiah 32 verses
- Lamentations 3 verses
- Ezekiel 20 verses
- Daniel 2 verses
- Hosea 4 verses
- Amos 2 verses
- Micah 1 verses
- Nahum 1 verses
- Zechariah 7 verses
- Malachi 2 verses
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).