Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Read in context →And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
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ʼishshâh · ish-shaw'
a woman
Strong's KJV usage: (adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Strong's first: Genesis 2:24Strong's last: Malachi 2:15
Open full H802 profile →gynḗ · goo-nay'
a woman; specially, a wife
Strong's KJV usage: :--wife, woman.
Strong's first: Matthew 1:20Strong's last: Revelation 21:9
Open full G1135 profile →Yᵉbêmeth · yeb-ay'-meth
a sister-in-law
Strong's KJV usage: brother's wife, sister in law.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:7Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:9
Open full H2994 profile →bâʻal · baw-al'
to be master; hence, to marry
Strong's KJV usage: have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, × wife).
Strong's first: Genesis 20:3Strong's last: Isaiah 54:1
Open full H1166 profile →gaméō · gam-eh'-o
to wed (of either sex)
Strong's KJV usage: :--marry (a wife).
Strong's first: Matthew 22:25Strong's last: Matthew 22:25
Open full G1060 profile →gynaikeîos · goo-nahee-ki'-os
feminine
Strong's KJV usage: :--wife.
Strong's first: 1 Peter 3:7Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:7
Open full G1134 profile →dôwdâh · do-daw'
an aunt
Strong's KJV usage: aunt, father's sister, uncle's wife.
Strong's first: Leviticus 20:20Strong's last: Leviticus 20:20
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Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
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WIFE, noun plural Wives. [G., a woman.]
1. The lawful consort of man; a woman who is united to man in the lawful bonds of wedlock; the correlative of husband.
The husband of one wife 1 Timothy 3:2.
Let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5:23.
2. A woman of low employment; as strawberry wives. [Not in use.]
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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