Strong’s H802 · Hebrew
אִשָּׁה
ʼishshâh · ish-shaw'
Origin feminine of אִישׁ (H376) or אֱנוֹשׁ (H582); irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as אֱנוֹשׁ (H582))
Meaning a woman
In the King James Version (adulter) ess, each, every, female, [idiom] many, [phrase] none, one, [phrase] together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
In 685 verses of the King James Version
551–600 of 685
- Esther 2:13Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.
- Esther 2:14In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
- Esther 2:15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
- Esther 2:17And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
- Esther 3:13And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esther 4:11All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
- Esther 5:10Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
- Esther 5:14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
- Esther 6:13And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
- Esther 8:11Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
- Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
- Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
- Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 31:9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
- Job 31:10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
- Job 42:15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
- Psalms 58:8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Psalms 109:9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
- Psalms 128:3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
- Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- Proverbs 6:26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
- Proverbs 6:29So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- Proverbs 6:32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
- Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- Proverbs 7:10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
- Proverbs 9:13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
- Proverbs 11:16A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
- Proverbs 11:22As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
- Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
- Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
- Proverbs 18:22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 19:14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
- Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
- Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- Proverbs 30:20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
- Proverbs 31:3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
- Proverbs 31:10Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
- Proverbs 31:30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Ecclesiastes 7:28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
- Song of Songs 1:8If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
- Song of Songs 5:9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.