Ruth 1:11
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
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Husbands
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1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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ἀνήρ
anḗr · an'-ayr
12 times translated as this KJV form222 total Strong's occurrences
a man (properly as an individual male)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fellow, husband, man, sir.
Strong's first: John 4:18Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:7
Open full G435 profile →אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh · en-oshe'
3 times translated as this KJV form559 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
Strong's KJV usage: another, × (blood-) thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, × in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some (× of them), stranger, those, their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word. Compare 376.
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Strong's first: Ruth 1:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:45
Open full H582 profile →בַּעַל
baʻal · bah'-al
2 times translated as this KJV form82 total Strong's occurrences
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
Strong's KJV usage: archer, babbler, bird, captain, chief man, confederate, have to do, dreamer, those to whom it is due, furious, those that are given to it, great, hairy, he that hath it, have, horseman, husband, lord, man, married, master, person, sworn, they of.
Strong's first: Esther 1:17Strong's last: Esther 1:20
Open full H1167 profile →φίλανδρος
phílandros · fil'-an-dros
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
fond of man, i.e. affectionate as a wife
Strong's KJV usage: :--love their husbands.
Strong's first: Titus 2:4Strong's last: Titus 2:4
Open full G5362 profile →אִישׁ
ʼîysh · eesh
1 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: Ruth 1:13Strong's last: Ruth 1:13
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H582
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
H376
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
H1167
For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
H1167
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
H582
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
H582
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
G435
For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
G435
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
G435
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
G435
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
G435
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
G435
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
G435
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
G435
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
G5362
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
G435
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
G435
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
G435
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
G435
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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husband
HUS'BAND, noun s as z.
1. A man contracted or joined to a woman by marriage. A man to whom a woman is betrothed, as well as one actually united by marriage, is called a husband Leviticus 19:20. Deuteronomy 22:22.
2. In seaman's language, the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in person.
3. The male of animals of a lower order.
4. An economist; a good manager; a man who knows and practices the methods of frugality and profit. In this sense, the word is modified by an epithet; as a good husband; a bad husband [But in America, this application of the word is little or not at all used.]
5. A farmer; a cultivator; a tiller of the ground. [In this sense, it is not used in America. We always use husbandman.]
HUS'BAND, verb transitive To direct and manage with frugality in expending any thing; to use or employ in the manner best suited to produce the greatest effect; to use with economy. We say, a man husbands his estate, his means or his time.
He is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
1. To till; to cultivate with good management.
2. To supply with a husband [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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