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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But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
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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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