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Lexicon :: Strong's H802 - 'iššâ

Aa
אִשָּׁה
Transliteration
'iššâ
Pronunciation
ish-shaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 137a

Strong’s Definitions

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x

The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x
The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

  1. woman, wife, female

    1. woman (opposite of man)

    2. wife (woman married to a man)

    3. female (of animals)

    4. each, every (pronoun)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
STRONGS H802: Abbreviations
אִשָּׁה 775 noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic bdb006102, Sabean אנתֿת etc. DHMZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתְּתָא, אִנְתְּתָא, אִתָּא, bdb006103, Palmyrene, Nabataean אנתתא, Ethiopic bdb006104 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 Genesis 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ Psalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁת Ezekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות); נָשִׁים Genesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי Genesis 4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי Genesis 30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; —
1. woman Genesis 3:1, 2; Genesis 12:11 +; opposed to man Genesis 2:22, 23; Exodus 35:29; Exodus 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:2, 5; Deuteronomy 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; Jeremiah 51:30; note especially הַטַּף בַּנָּשִׁים 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; Job 15:14; Job 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isaiah 49:15; אֹרַח כַּנָּשִׁים Genesis 18:11; דֶּרֶח נָשִׁים Genesis 31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת א׳ nursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; זוֺנָה א׳ harlot Joshua 2:1; Joshua 6:22; Judges 11:1; Judges 16:1; 1 Kings 3:16; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 23:44; so זָרָה א׳ Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; מְנָאָ֑פֶת א׳ adulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ Proverbs 6:26), אֵשֶׁת זְנוּנִים Hosea 1:2; נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת foreign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26, 27 (compare Nehemiah 13:23); חֲכָמָה א׳ wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 20:16, etc.; also מִּילֶגֶשׁ א׳ concubine Judges 19:1, 27: אַלְמָנָה א׳ widow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 17:9, 10; נְבִיאָה א׳ prophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע Proverbs 6:24; בְּסִילוּת א׳ Proverbs 9:13; חֵן א׳ Proverbs 11:16; חַיִל א׳ Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10; Ruth 3:11; מִדְיָנִים א׳ Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 25:24; Proverbs 27:15; וָכָ֑עַס מ׳ א׳ Proverbs 21:19.
2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Genesis 2:24, 25; Genesis 3:8, 17; Genesis 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ) Deuteronomy 20:7; Deuteronomy 28:30; בַּעַל (הָ)אִשָּׁה Exodus 21:3, 22; אִישׁ הָאִשָּׁה Judges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה to wife Genesis 2:22; Genesis 12:19; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 34:21 + often (after לָקַח, נָתַן husband or father subject); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה, woman subject) Genesis 20:12; Numbers 36:3, 6 (twice in verse); Numbers 36:11, 12; Deuteronomy 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 13:7; compare Deuteronomy 28:54; נְעוּרֶיךָ א׳ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14, 15; בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ א׳ Malachi 2:14; אֵשֶׁת אָב = step-mother Leviticus 18:8, 11; Leviticus 20:11.
3. Female of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below 4
†4. With distributive & reciprocal sense, מֵאֵת א׳ רְעוּתָהּ 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 Isaiah 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) אֶל אֲחֹתָהּ א׳ Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:5, 6, 17 (P) Ezekiel 1:9 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 3:13.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 2:24; 2:25; 3:1; 3:2; 3:8; 3:17; 4:1; 4:17; 4:19; 4:23; 7:2; 11:29; 12:11; 12:18; 12:19; 16:3; 18:11; 20:11; 20:12; 30:26; 31:35; 34:21

Exodus

2:2; 2:7; 11:2; 21:3; 21:22; 22:23; 26:3; 26:5; 26:6; 26:17; 35:29; 36:6

Leviticus

12:2; 18:8; 18:11; 20:11

Numbers

31:18; 36:3; 36:6; 36:11; 36:12

Deuteronomy

7:2; 7:5; 13:7; 20:7; 21:11; 22:19; 22:22; 22:29; 28:30; 28:54

Joshua

2:1; 6:22

Judges

4:4; 11:1; 13:24; 16:1; 19:1; 19:27; 20:4

Ruth

1:8; 1:9; 3:11

1 Samuel

21:5; 28:7

2 Samuel

11:5; 14:2; 14:5; 20:16

1 Kings

3:16; 3:18; 11:1; 11:8; 11:26; 17:9; 17:10; 20:7

Ezra

10:2; 10:10; 10:11; 10:14; 10:17; 10:18; 10:44

Nehemiah

13:23; 13:26; 13:27

Job

14:1; 15:14; 25:4

Psalms

58:9; 128:3

Proverbs

2:16; 5:18; 6:24; 6:26; 6:26; 7:5; 9:13; 11:16; 12:4; 21:9; 21:19; 25:24; 27:15; 30:20; 31:10

Ecclesiastes

7:28

Isaiah

34:15; 34:16; 49:15

Jeremiah

3:3; 9:19; 13:21; 50:37; 51:30

Ezekiel

1:9; 1:23; 3:13; 16:30; 23:44; 23:44; 23:44

Hosea

1:2

Amos

4:3

Zechariah

11:9

Malachi

2:14; 2:14; 2:15

H802

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Strong's Number H802 matches the Hebrew אִשָּׁה ('iššâ),
which occurs 781 times in 686 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 10 / 14 (1Ki 14:2–1Ch 8:29)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - And Jeroboam said to his wife, H802 Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife H802 of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4 - And Jeroboam's wife H802 did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5 - And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife H802 of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:6 - And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife H802 of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 - And Jeroboam's wife H802 arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife H802 Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman H802 there to sustain thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman H802 was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, H802 the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24 - And the woman H802 said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3 - Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also H802 and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5 - And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, H802 and thy children;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7 - Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, H802 and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 - But Jezebel his wife H802 came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - And Jezebel his wife H802 said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife H802 stirred up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1 - Now H802 there cried a H802 certain woman H802 of the wives H802 of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 - And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a H802 great woman; H802 and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 - And the woman H802 conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman H802 unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28 - And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman H802 said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, H802 that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Then spake Elisha unto the woman, H802 whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - And the woman H802 arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman H802 returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, H802 whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, H802 and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - And when the king asked the woman, H802 she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: H802 and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: H802 and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:14 - So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife H802 of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women H802 wove hangings for the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, H802 and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:50 - And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's H802 name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:18 - And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, H802 and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24 - And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then H802 Abiah Hezron's wife H802 bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:26 - Jerahmeel had also another wife, H802 whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:29 - And the name of the wife H802 of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:35 - And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; H802 and she bare him Attai.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:3 - The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:5 - And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, H802 Helah and Naarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:18 - And his wife H802 Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:19 - And the sons of H802 his wife H802 Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives H802 and sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:15 - And Machir took to wife H802 the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:16 - And Maachah the wife H802 of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:23 - And when he went in to his wife, H802 she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:8 - And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. H802

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:9 - And he begat of Hodesh his wife, H802 Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:29 - And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's H802 name was Maachah:

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