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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Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
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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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