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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2 Samuel 11:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
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2 Samuel 11:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
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2 Samuel 11:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
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2 Samuel 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
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2 Samuel 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
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2 Samuel 11:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
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2 Samuel 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Samuel 12:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.
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2 Samuel 12:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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2 Samuel 12:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
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2 Samuel 12:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
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2 Samuel 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
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2 Samuel 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
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2 Samuel 14:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
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2 Samuel 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
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2 Samuel 14:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
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2 Samuel 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
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2 Samuel 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
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2 Samuel 14:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
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2 Samuel 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
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2 Samuel 14:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
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2 Samuel 14:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
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2 Samuel 14:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
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2 Samuel 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
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2 Samuel 17:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
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2 Samuel 17:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 19:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
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Source alternate reference: 19.6
2 Samuel 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
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2 Samuel 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”
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2 Samuel 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.
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2 Samuel 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
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2 Samuel 20:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
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1 Kings 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”
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1 Kings 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
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1 Kings 3:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
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1 Kings 3:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
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1 Kings 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
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1 Kings 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
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1 Kings 3:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
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1 Kings 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);
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1 Kings 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);
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1 Kings 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
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1 Kings 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
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1 Kings 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
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1 Kings 11:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
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1 Kings 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
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1 Kings 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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1 Kings 11:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
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1 Kings 11:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
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