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Wife
Verses
331 results- VerseLuke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
- Verse1 Chronicles 8:9His sons by his wife Hodesh:
- VerseGenesis 25:1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
- VerseEzekiel 16:32You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!
- VersePsalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
People
9 results- PersonSarahAbraham's wife — barren, then bearing Isaac by promise “past age” through faith; Paul's allegory of the covenant of promise (Gal 4; Heb 11:11).
- PersonLeahJacob's unloved first wife, on whom the LORD's eye fell — the mother of Judah, the messianic tribe, and of Levi, the priestly tribe.
- PersonRachelJacob's beloved wife; mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who dies on the road to Bethlehem — later wept for in the prophets (Jer 31:15; Matt 2:18).
- PersonAquilaA Jewish tentmaker of Pontus who, with his wife Priscilla, labored alongside Paul and "laid down their own necks" for him (Rom 16:3-4; Acts 18).
- PersonElisabethWife of Zacharias, kinswoman of Mary, and mother of John the Baptist. Barren and advanced in years, she conceives by promise; filled with the Holy Spirit at Mary's greeting…
Words (Strong's)
- WordG1135 γυνή · gynḗ (Greek)a woman. The Greek word stands 211 times in the original text.
- WordH1166 בָּעַל · bâʻal (Hebrew)to be master. The Hebrew word stands 15 times in the original text.
- WordH7695 שֵׁגָל · shêgâl (Hebrew)a (legitimate) queen. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG1134 γυναικεῖος · gynaikeîos (Greek)feminine. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH802 אִשָּׁה · ʼishshâh (Hebrew)a woman. The Hebrew word stands 781 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
Topics
2 resultsFeatured studies
3 results- StudyHosea: the Study GuideGod stakes His own covenant love on a broken human marriage. The book's own zig-zag: judgment, a flicker of hope, deeper judgment, the deepest compassion at chapter 11, and a final unconditional…
- StudyGomer: Bought BackThe command God gave a prophet to marry an unfaithful woman, held at full strength on both sides: the three children named as verdicts and reversed, and the price Hosea paid to buy his own wife back.
- StudySarah: Mother of Nations · MannaFestThe wife who laughed at the promise, was twice passed off as a sister, and is the only woman whose age at death Scripture records.
Voices
16 results- VoiceA.W. PinkArthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham, England, on April 1, 1886, into a corn merchant's family. He was a bright young man who went looking for spiritual reality in the…
- VoiceJames W. GollDr. James W. Goll (born 1952) is an American Charismatic prophetic teacher, author, and the President / founder of God Encounters Ministries (formerly Encounters Network). He…
- VoiceJohn BevereJohn Bevere (born June 11, 1959) is an American minister, author, and the co-founder (with his wife Lisa) of Messenger International, an itinerant teaching-and-discipleship…
- VoiceDon RichardsonDon Richardson (June 23, 1935 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian Christian missionary, author, and pioneering missiologist. With his wife Carol and infant son, he went in 1962…
- VoiceDarren StottDarren Stott is an American Charismatic-revival pastor and the senior leader (with his wife Andrea) of Eden Church (formerly Seattle Revival Center, Snohomish/Bothell…
Apocrypha (study resources)
58 results- Study resourceTobit 2:11And my wife Anna did take women’s works to do.
- Study resourceTobit 11:3Let us haste before thy wife, and prepare the house.
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:25Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.
- Study resourceSirach 26:13The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.
- Study resourceSirach 42:6Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.