Lexical Definition

‎אִשָּׁה‎ ʼishshâh (ish-shaw') woman ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎אִישׁ‎ or ‎אֱנוֹשׁ‎; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym (naw-sheem');(used in the same wide sense as ‎אֱנוֹשׁ‎)

(adulter) ess, each, every, female, [idiom] many, [phrase] none, one, [phrase] together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

• a 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)

See Greek: γυναικεῖος · γυνή · ἡγέομαι · θῆλυς · θυγάτηρ · κοράσιον · μήτηρ

Extended Information

meaning of: אִשָּׁה

• : wife/widow

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אִשָּׁה‎₇₇₅ noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic , Sabean ‎אנתֿת‎ etc. DHM^{ZK 1884, 360}, Aramaic ‎אִתְּתָא‎, ‎אִנְתְּתָא‎, ‎אִתָּא‎, , Palmyrene, Nabataean ‎אנתתא‎, Ethiopic Phoenician ‎אשת‎, Assyrian aššatu COT^Gloss) — ‎׳‎‎א‎ absolute Gen 2:33 +; construct ‎אֵשֶׁת‎ Gen 11:29 + (apparently absolute Deut 21:11; 1Sam 28:7; Ps 58:9* but compare Bö^{§ 728} Ges^{«GKC:130»§ 130}. 5); suffix ‎אִשְׁתִּי‎ Gen 20:11 +; ‎אִשְׁתְּךָ‎ Gen 12:18 + (‎אֶשְׁתְּךָ‎ Ps 128:3), etc.; Plural ‎אִשֹּׁת‎ Ezek 23:44 (Co ‎לעשׂות‎); ‎נָשִׁים‎ Gen 4:19 +; construct ‎נְשֵׁי‎ Gen 4:23 +; suffix ‎נָשַׁי‎ Gen 30:26; 1Kgs 20:7 ‎נְשֵׁיכֶם‎ Exod 22:23* +, etc.; —

1. woman Gen 3:1; Gen 3:2; Gen 12:11 +; opposed to man Gen 2:22; Gen 2:23; Exod 35:29; Exod 36:6; Deut 7:2; Deut 7:5; Deut 22:22; 1Sam 21:5* +; ‎׳‎‎א‎ emphatic a genuine (or ideal) woman Eccl 7:28 (|| ‎אדם‎); simile of men as feeble, timid Jer 50:37; Jer 51:30 note especially ‎הַטַּף בַּנָּשִׁים‎ the children among the women, female children Num 31:18 (P); as conceiving Exod 2:2; Lev 12:2; 2Sam 11:5 +; travailing Jer 13:21 bearing children Judg 13:24; 1Kgs 3:18 compare Job 14:1; Job 15:14; Job 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isa 49:15 ‎אֹרַח כַּנָּשִׁים‎ Gen 18:11 ‎דֶּרֶח נָשִׁים‎ Gen 31:35 with adjective, or app., ‎מֵינֶקֶת‎‎׳‎‎א‎ nursing woman, nurse Exod 2:7 ‎זוֺנָה‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ harlot Josh 2:1; Josh 6:22; Judg 11:1; Judg 16:1; 1Kgs 3:16; Prov 6:26; Jer 3:3; Ezek 16:30; Ezek 23:44 so ‎זָרָה‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 2:16; Prov 7:5 compare also Ezek 23:44 above; ‎מְנָאָ֑פֶת‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ adulteress Prov 30:20 (compare ‎אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ‎ Prov 6:26), ‎אֵשֶׁת זְנוּנִים‎ Hos 1:2 ‎נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת‎ foreign women 1Kgs 11:1; 1Kgs 11:8; Ezra 10:2; Ezra 10:10; Ezra 10:11; Ezra 10:14; Ezra 10:17; Ezra 10:18; Ezra 10:44; Neh 13:26; Neh 13:27 (compare vNeh 13:23); ‎חֲכָמָה‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2Sam 14:2; 2Sam 20:16, etc.; also ‎פִּילֶגֶשׁ‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ concubine Judg 19:1; Judg 19:27: ‎אַלְמָנָה‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ widow 2Sam 14:5; 1Kgs 11:26; 1Kgs 17:9; 1Kgs 17:10 ‎נְבִיאָה‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ prophetess Judg 4:4 also construct before noun of quality ‎אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע‎ Prov 6:24 ‎בְּסִילוּת‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 9:13 ‎חֵן‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 11:16 ‎חַיִל‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 12:4; Prov 31:10; Ruth 3:11 ‎מִדְיָנִים‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 21:9; Prov 25:24; Prov 27:15 ‎וָכָ֑עַס‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 21:19.

2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Gen 2:24; Gen 2:25; Gen 3:8; Gen 3:17; Gen 4:1; Gen 4:17 + often; of one betrothed (‎ארשׂ‎) Deut 20:7; Deut 28:30 ‎בַּעַל (הָ)אִשָּׁה‎ Exod 21:3; Exod 21:22 ‎אִישׁ הָאִשָּׁה‎ Judg 20:4 ‎לְאִשָּׁה‎ to wife Gen 2:22; Gen 12:19; Gen 16:3; Gen 34:21 + often (after ‎לָקַח‎, ‎נָתַן‎ husband or father subject); for wife (after ‎הָֽיְתָה‎, woman subject) Gen 20:12; Num 36:3; Num 36:6 (twice in verse); Num 36:11; Num 36:12; Deut 22:19; Deut 22:29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase ‎אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶ֑ךָ‎ Deut 13:7* compare Deut 28:54 ‎נְעוּרֶיךָ‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Prov 5:18; Mal 2:14; Mal 2:15 ‎בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ vMal 2:14 ‎אֵשֶׁת אָב‎ = step-mother Lev 18:8; Lev 18:11; Lev 20:11.

3. Female of animals Gen 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below

4.

4. With distributive & reciprocal sense, ‎מֵאֵת‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ ‎רְעוּתָהּ‎ each woman from her neighbour Exod 11:2 (E); compare Ruth 1:8; Ruth 1:9; Jer 9:19* each one, of birds of prey Isa 34:15 compare vIsa 34:16 (strike out Bi Che); of cows (figurative of heartless women of Israel) Amos 4:3 of sheep (figurative of Israel) Zech 11:9 & of inanimate things (P, & late) ‎אֶל אֲחֹתָהּ‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Exod 26:3 (twice in verse); Exod 26:5; Exod 26:6; Exod 26:17 (P) Ezek 1:9 (strike out Co) vEzek 1:23; Ezek 3:13.

II. ‎אנשׁ‎ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew III. ‎אנשׁ‎, ‎אִשָּׁח‎).

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