Lexical Summary ishshah: woman, wife, female Original Word: אִשָּׁהTransliteration: ishshah Phonetic Spelling: (ish-shaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: woman, wife, female Meaning: woman, wife, female Strong's Concordance adulteress, each, every, female, many, none, one, together, Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 'enowsh) -- (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English. see HEBREW 'iysh see HEBREW 'enowsh see HEBREW 'enowsh Brown-Driver-Briggs H802. ishshah אִשָּׁה775 noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic , Sabean אנתֿת etc. DHMZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתָּא אִנְתְּתָא, אִתְּתָא,, , Palmyrene, Nabataean אנתתא, Ethiopic Phoenician אשת, Assyrian aššatu COTGloss) — ׳א absolute Genesis 2:33 +; construct אֵשֶׁת Genesis 11:29 + (apparently absolute Deuteronomy 21:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Psalm 58:9 but compare Bö§ 728 Ges§ 130. 5); suffix אִשְׁתִּי Genesis 20:11 +; אִשְׁתְּךָ 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ Psalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁת Ezekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות); נָשִׁים Genesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי 4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי 30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; — 1 woman Genesis 3:1-2, 12:11 +; opposed to man 2:22-23, Exodus 35:29; 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:2, 5; 22:22; 1 Samuel 21:5 +; ׳א emphatic a Genuine (or ideal) woman Ecclesiastes 7:28 ("" אדם); simile of men as feeble, timid Jeremiah 50:37; 51:30; note especially בַּנָּשִׁים הַטַּף the children among the women, female children Numbers 31:18 (P); as conceiving Exodus 2:2; Leviticus 12:2; 2 Samuel 11:5 +; travailing Jeremiah 13:21; bearing children Judges 13:24; 1 Kings 3:18; compare Job 14:1; 15:14; 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isaiah 49:15; כַּנָּשִׁים אֹרַח Genesis 18:11; נָשִׁים דֶּרֶח 31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת׳א nursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; ׳א זוֺנָה harlot Joshua 2:1; 6:22; Judges 11:1; 16:1; 1 Kings 3:16; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; 23:44; so ׳א זָרָה Proverbs 2:16; 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; ׳א מְנָאָ֑פֶת adulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אִישׁ אֵשֶׁת 6:26), זְנוּנִים אֵשֶׁת Hosea 1:2; נָכְרִיּוֺת נָשִׁים foreign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26-27, (compare 13:23); ׳א חֲכָמָה wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 20:16, etc.; also ׳א מִּילֶגֶשׁ concubine Judges 19:1, 27: ׳א אַלְמָנָה widow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 17:9-10, ׳א נְבִיאָה prophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality רָ֑ע אֵשֶׁת Proverbs 6:24; ׳א בְּסִילוּת 9:13; ׳א חֵן 11:16; ׳א חַיִל 12:4; 31:10; Ruth 3:11; ׳א מִדְיָנִים Proverbs 21:9; 25:24; 27:15; ׳א ׳מ וָכָ֑עַס 21:19. 2 Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Genesis 2:24-25, 3:8, 17; 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ) Deuteronomy 20:7; 28:30; (הָ)אִשָּׁה בַּעַל Exodus 21:3, 22; הָאִשָּׁה אִישׁ Judges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה to wife Genesis 2:22; 12:19; 16:3; 34:21 + often (after נָתַן לָקַח, husband or father subject); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה, woman subject) 20:12; Numbers 36:3, 6 (twice in verse); 36:11-12, Deuteronomy 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase חֵיקֶ֑ךָ אֵשֶׁת 13:7; compare 28:54; ׳א נְעוּרֶיךָ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14-15, ׳א בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ 2:14; אָב אֵשֶׁת = step-mother Leviticus 18:8, 11; 20:11. 3 Female of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below 4 4 With distributive & reciprocal sense, רְעוּתָהּ ׳א מֵאֵת each woman from her neighbour Exodus 11:2 (E); compare Ruth 1:8-9, Jeremiah 9:19; each one, of birds of prey Isaiah 34:15 compare 34:16 (strike out Bi Che); of cows (figurative of heartless women of Israel) Amos 4:3; of sheep (figurative of Israel) Zechariah 11:9; & of inanimate things (P, & late) ׳א אֲחֹתָהּ אֶל Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); 26:5-6, 17 (P) Ezekiel 1:9 (strike out Co) 1:23; 3:13. אנת (the root of the pronoun 2 person in Shemitic: , anta; feminine , ant£; Biblical Aramaic Kt אַנְתָּה (masculine), אַנְתְּ ᵑ7 & אַתְּ (both masculine & feminine); Syriac , feminine , the n being written but not pronounced; Assyrian atta, feminine atti-e Dl§ 55 a, the nt being merged in the double t; Hebrew similarly. Plural , feminine , Aramaic אַנְתּוּן, , feminine אַתִּין, ; Assyrian attunu). II. אנשׁ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew III. אִשָּׁח אנשׁ,). |