Words the Bible translates as woman
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gunēγυνήan adult woman, and, where a husband is in view, that man's wife: one word for both
- ishshahאִשָּׁהan adult female human being: a woman, and, when the sentence ties her to a man, his wife.
- neqevahנְקֵבָהfemale: the female one of a human or animal pair, the counterpart to the male.
- nashinנְשִׁיןwomannot studied yet
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