802. ishshah
Lexical Summary
ishshah: woman, wife, female
Original Word: אִשָּׁה
Transliteration: 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 אֵשֶׁתGenesis 11:29 + (apparently absolute Deuteronomy 21:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Psalm 58:9 but compare Bö§ 728 Ges§ 130. 5); suffix אִשְׁתִּיGenesis 20:11 +; אִשְׁתְּךָ12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָPsalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁתEzekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות‎); נָשִׁיםGenesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶםExodus 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 הַטַּףthe 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 אֹרַחGenesis 18:11; נָשִׁים דֶּרֶח31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת׳אnursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; ׳א זוֺנָהharlot 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 זָרָהProverbs 2:16; 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; ׳א מְנָאָ֑פֶתadulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אִישׁ אֵשֶׁת6:26), זְנוּנִים אֵשֶׁתHosea 1:2; נָכְרִיּוֺת נָשִׁיםforeign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26-27, (compare 13:23); ׳א חֲכָמָהwise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 20:16, etc.; also ׳א מִּילֶגֶשׁconcubine Judges 19:1, 27: ׳א אַלְמָנָהwidow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 17:9-10, ׳א נְבִיאָהprophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality רָ֑ע אֵשֶׁתProverbs 6:24; ׳א בְּסִילוּת9:13; ׳א חֵן11:16; ׳א חַיִל12:4; 31:10; Ruth 3:11; ׳א מִדְיָנִיםProverbs 21:9; 25:24; 27:15; ׳א ׳מ וָכָ֑עַס21:19.

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 בַּעַלExodus 21:3, 22; הָאִשָּׁה אִישׁJudges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁהto 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 אֵשֶׁת13:7; compare 28:54; ׳א נְעוּרֶיךָProverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14-15, ׳א בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ2:14; 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 מֵאֵתeach 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 אֶלExodus 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,‎).








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