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

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.
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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).