אִשָּׁה ishshah

Hebrew word for “woman” · Strong’s H802 · used 781 times in 686 verses

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Meaning

: wife/widow; 1) woman, wife, female;

Senses in the lexicon

• woman: wife (442)
• woman (324)
• woman: another (15)

How it is translated

Glosses given for ishshah in context, with how often each is used:

• wife 305
• woman 237
• wives 109
• women 95
• each 12
• more than a woman 3
• each woman 3
• among women 3
• female 2
• like women 2
• more than women 2
• own wife 1

Where it is used

Also in 21 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 5 (16), Genesis 24 (14), Judges 13 (13), Genesis 3 (12), Leviticus 18 (11), Judges 21 (10), 2 Samuel 14 (10), Ezra 10 (10), Genesis 12 (9), Genesis 36 (9)

Forms

• אשׁה 147
• האשׁה 103
• אשׁת 98
• אשׁתו 66
• לאשׁה 58
• נשׁים 55
• הנשׁים 40
• ואשׁה 22
• לנשׁים 16
• ואשׁתו 14

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ishshah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בַּת bat “daughter” 111
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 116
• יָלַד yalad “to beget” 59
• אָב av “father” 64
• מוּת mut “to die” 56
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 67
• שֵׁם shem “name” 50
• טַף taph “child” 26
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 45
• הָ ha “her” 36
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 44
• זֹאת zot “this” 37

Key verses

The verses using ishshah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• Genesis 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
• Genesis 20:7 — Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou…
• Genesis 24:3 — And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the…
• Exodus 15:20 — And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
• Deuteronomy 13:6 — If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly,…
• 2 Samuel 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman…
• 1 Kings 16:31 — And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of…
• Isaiah 27:11 — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that…
• Jeremiah 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?…
• Jeremiah 8:10 — Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to…
• Zechariah 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.