HebrewH0802Noun (Feminine)

אִשָּׁה

ish.shah

667Occurrences
H0802Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a woman

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
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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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

אִשָּׁה appears 667 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
131
Judges
55
1 Samuel
45
2 Samuel
39
1 Kings
34
Numbers
33
Exodus
32
Leviticus
32

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:50BSB

When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

2 Samuel 1:26BSB

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.You were delightful to me;your love to me was extraordinary,surpassing the love of women.

Ezk 18:11BSB

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Genesis 39:8BSB

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Joshua 2:4BSB

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

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