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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Judges 13:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
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Judges 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
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Judges 13:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
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Judges 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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Judges 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
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Judges 14:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
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Judges 14:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
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Judges 14:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
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Judges 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
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Judges 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
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Judges 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
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Judges 14:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
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Judges 15:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
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Judges 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
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Judges 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
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Judges 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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Judges 16:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
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Judges 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
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Judges 19:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.
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Judges 19:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
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Judges 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
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Judges 21:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
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Judges 21:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
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Judges 21:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
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Judges 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
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Judges 21:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
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Judges 21:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
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Judges 21:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”
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Judges 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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Judges 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
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Judges 21:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
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Ruth 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
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Ruth 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
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Ruth 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
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Ruth 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
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Ruth 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
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Ruth 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
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Ruth 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
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Ruth 3:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
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Ruth 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
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Ruth 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
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Ruth 4:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
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Ruth 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
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Ruth 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
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Ruth 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.
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1 Samuel 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
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1 Samuel 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
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1 Samuel 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
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1 Samuel 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.
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1 Samuel 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
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