ish.shah H802

אִשָּׁה (ish.shah) means “woman” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אִשָּׁה Hebrew · H802 781 tagged occurrences in 686 verses

Pronunciation guide: ish-shaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0802G

אִשָּׁה · ish.shah · woman

: woman 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

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TBESH · H0802H

אִשָּׁה · ish.shah · woman: wife

: wife/widow 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

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TBESH · H0802I

אִשָּׁה · ish.shah · woman: another

: another 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

feminine of H376 (אִישׁ) or H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ); irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ)) a woman

KJV glosses: (adulter) ess, each, every, female, [idiom] many, [phrase] none, one, [phrase] together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

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How translators render H802

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
wife	91
women	45
woman	43
the woman	37
wives	36
his wife	35
a woman	26
a wife	20
the women	18
and his wife	17
in marriage	15
the wife	15
your wife	10
my wife	9
vvv	9
your wives	9
and their wives	8
and wives	6
and women	6
the widow	6
among women	5
as a wife	5
her	5
his wives	5
then the woman	5
and your wife	4
as my wife	4
but the woman	4
of a woman	4
or woman	4
she	4
so the woman	4
their wives	4
when the woman	4
and his wifes	3
and the wife	3
and the woman	3
and woman	3
as his wife	3
by his wife	3
each	3
he is to have the woman	3
his wifes	3
including women	3
like women	3
of the woman	3
of woman	3
of women	3
one	3
the wives	3
to his wife	3
with his wife	3
about wives	2
and his wives	2
and its mate	2
and she	2
and the women	2
and your wives	2
as wives	2
but his wife	2
for a wife	2
is your wife	2
my wives	2
our wives	2
the harem	2
to a woman	2
to be his wife	2
to the woman	2
together	2
a prostitute	1
a woman who	1
about his wife	1
about the woman	1
along with their wives	1
am a woman	1
am the woman	1
and	1
and my wife	1
and naomi	1
and one	1
and the adulteress	1
and women alike	1
are a woman	1
are his wife	1
arrived with a wife	1
as a woman	1
as his wives	1
as well	1
as with a woman	1
as your own	1
as your wife	1
back my wife	1
be the woman	1
both a woman	1
but a woman	1
but davids wife	1
but lots wife	1
but when the woman	1
by these wives	1
by women	1
can a woman	1
each of you	1
each one	1
each young woman	1
every	1
female	1
for the women	1
from her	1
from women	1
has made women	1
has the woman	1
he married	1
her husband	1
his own wife	1
if a woman	1
in broad daylight	1
in the harem	1
in the wife	1
including the women	1
is his wife	1
is the woman	1
let their wives	1
like a wife	1
like a woman	1
like a womans	1
mans wife	1
married	1
mother	1
nor our wives	1
not one	1
now the wife	1
o women	1
of a prostitute	1
of an adulteress	1
of his wife	1
of other women	1
of the women	1
of your wives	1
on women	1
one such woman	1
opposite	1
or his wife	1
or to his mother	1
or woman alive	1
own	1
shall have the woman	1
she is my wife	1
so hannah	1
soon his wife	1
the foreign wives	1
the other women	1
the skilled women	1
the womans	1
the women and all	1
then jobs wife	1
then may my own wife	1
then she	1
then the mans wife	1
then the women	1
then your wives	1
they are like your women	1
they do a woman	1
this woman	1
to his wives	1
to my wife	1
to send their wives	1
to the wife	1
to your wife	1
visit the woman	1
was a woman	1
was your wife	1
were married	1
whose wife was	1
widow	1
wifes	1
with the wife	1
with their wives	1
with this woman	1
wives for them	1
womans	1
women as their wives	1
women have	1
womens	1
you with your wife	1
your wifes	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
wife	70
wives	42
his wife	41
woman	39
to wife	31
a wife	25
and the woman	25
women	20
the wife	18
the woman	17
and women	16
and his wife	15
unto the woman	14
a woman	13
of the women	11
thy wife	10
of a woman	9
and the women	8
of his wife	7
or woman	7
and woman	6
my wife	6
of women	6
one	6
among women	5
and their wives	5
apart and their wives	5
the women	5
their wives	5
them wives	5
with a woman	5
and all the women	4
his wives	4
and his wifes	3
and if a woman	3
and when the woman	3
him a wife	3
nor woman	3
of the woman	3
then the woman	3
to be his wife	3
to his wife	3
with the wife	3
with the women	3
your wives	3
all the wives	2
and every woman	2
and his female	2
and his wives	2
and if the woman	2
and she became his wife	2
and she shall be his wife	2
and the wife	2
and thy wives	2
and wives	2
but his wife	2
each	2
every one	2
for wives	2
he and his wife	2
her to him to wife	2
him to wife	2
if a woman	2
of your wives	2
or a woman	2
or that woman	2
so the woman	2
thee a wife	2
thee as a woman	2
this woman	2
to my wife	2
to the woman	2
unto a woman	2
unto his wife	2
whose wifes	2
with the woman	2
ye wives	2
a widows	1
above all his wives	1
above all the women	1
above women	1
according as the womans	1
after the woman	1
against the wife	1
all thy wives	1
also and his wives	1
also and to his wife	1
also or a woman	1
also or woman	1
and a wife	1
and became his wife	1
and behold all the women	1
and behold the woman	1
and every one	1
and for a wife	1
and for your wives	1
and had taken the women	1
and he shall cause the woman	1
and if they be married	1
and let their wives	1
and of their wives	1
and our wives	1
and she became my wife	1
and she shall be thy wife	1
and she was his wife	1
and the adulteress	1
and this womans	1
and thou hadst a whores	1
and thy wife	1
and to all the women	1
and to his wife	1
and to the women	1
and toward the wife	1
and when the wife	1
and your wives	1
as well to the women	1
be like unto women	1
behold the wife	1
between thee and the wife	1
between thee and the woman	1
but a woman	1
but all the women	1
but be as a woman	1
but every woman	1
but the women	1
but your wives	1
by a woman	1
can a woman	1
concerning this woman	1
did not a woman	1
every	1
every woman	1
for a wife	1
for my wifes	1
for the woman	1
for the women	1
for their wives	1
from the womans	1
from women	1
hath made women	1
he a woman	1
her for me to wife	1
her him to wife	1
her to be his wife	1
her to me to wife	1
herself and the woman	1
him a woman	1
himself and behold a woman	1
his wifes	1
house	1
i and this woman	1
if he were married	1
let my wife	1
let them marry	1
me a woman	1
mine thy wives	1
more wives	1
my wives	1
none	1
not my wife	1
not of me a woman	1
now therefore behold thy wife	1
o ye women	1
of a wife	1
of an harlot	1
of her and they shall become as women	1
of his own wife	1
of the wife	1
of the wives	1
of the womens	1
of their wives	1
of them and the woman	1
of them his wives	1
of this woman	1
of thy wife	1
of thy wives	1
on a womans	1
or his wife	1
or the wife	1
our wives	1
out of the womans	1
over his wife	1
peradventure the woman	1
seeing the women	1
shall be wife	1
shall cause the woman	1
shall she be above women	1
shall the women	1
shall they marry	1
she was a woman	1
that a woman	1
that all women	1
that behold the woman	1
that my wife	1
that our wives	1
that the woman	1
that the women	1
that their wives	1
that this woman	1
the one	1
the wives	1
the womans	1
thee and the woman	1
thee to him to wife	1
thee to wife	1
them their wives	1
then his wife	1
thence the woman	1
there an harlot	1
they became as women	1
they were married	1
thou and the woman	1
thou and thy wife	1
thou or to the woman	1
thou wife	1
thy wives	1
thyself therewith neither shall any woman	1
to be my wife	1
to be the wife	1
to be their wives	1
to be thy wife	1
to him a concubine	1
to thy wife	1
to us for wives	1
to wives	1
together with	1
together with the woman	1
unto all women	1
unto her the woman	1
unto him peradventure the woman	1
unto him to wife	1
unto his wives	1
unto me for my wives	1
unto the wives	1
unto thee a wife	1
unto thee and thy wife	1
unto women	1
was his wife	1
we our wives	1
were married	1
were no women	1
when a wife	1
where the women	1
wifes	1
with my wife	1
with thee in all this and the woman	1
with thy wife	1
with thy wives	1
womankind	1
womans	1
ye and your wives	1
ye women	1

Verses containing H802

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Esther 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
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Esther 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
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Esther 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
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Esther 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
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Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
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Esther 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
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Esther 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,
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Esther 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
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Esther 6:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
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Esther 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
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Job 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
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Job 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
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Job 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
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Job 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
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Job 25:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Job 31:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
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Job 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
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Job 42:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
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Psalms 58:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
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Source alternate reference: 58.9
Psalms 109:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
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Psalms 128:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
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Proverbs 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
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Proverbs 5:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
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Proverbs 6:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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Proverbs 6:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
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Proverbs 6:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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Proverbs 6:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
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Proverbs 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
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Proverbs 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
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Proverbs 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
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Proverbs 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.
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Proverbs 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
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Proverbs 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
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Proverbs 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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Proverbs 18:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
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Proverbs 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
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Proverbs 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
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Proverbs 21:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
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Proverbs 21:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
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Proverbs 25:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
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Proverbs 27:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
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Proverbs 30:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
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Proverbs 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
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Proverbs 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
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Proverbs 31:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
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Ecclesiastes 7:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
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Ecclesiastes 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
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Song of Solomon 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
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Song of Solomon 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
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