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אִשָּׁה

ishshah

ish-shaw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼishshâh

a woman

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a woman

Rendered in the KJV as

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

  • 781
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 179
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 179

  • אֵ֣שֶׁת25
  • לְאִשָּֽׁה׃23
  • אִשָּׁ֖ה19
  • אֵֽשֶׁת־15
  • הָאִשָּׁ֖ה15
  • אִשָּׁ֔ה14
  • הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה13
  • אֵ֥שֶׁת12
  • אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ12
  • אִשָּׁ֣ה11
  • אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ10
  • הָֽאִשָּׁה֙10

and 167 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 72

  • the woman79
  • [the] wife of63
  • a woman53
  • wife his48
  • to a wife34
  • a wife24
  • the women14
  • and wife his12
  • and a woman11
  • wives11
  • into a wife9
  • wife your9

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 36

  • noun · feminine singular94
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular82
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)70
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular50
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular47
  • noun · masculine plural16
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular15
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural14
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural14
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular13
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular11
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular8
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsa · 94
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 82
  • HNcfsc · 70
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 50
  • HR/Ncfsa · 47
  • HNcmpa · 16
  • HC/Ncfsa · 15
  • HR/Ncmpa · 14
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 14
  • HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms · 13
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms · 11
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 8

The first 500 of 781, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis152 occurrences
Exodus38 occurrences
Leviticus35 occurrences
Numbers41 occurrences
Deuteronomy41 occurrences
Joshua10 occurrences
Judges69 occurrences
Ruth15 occurrences
1 Samuel54 occurrences
2 Samuel42 occurrences
Psalms3 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אִשָּׁה

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).