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2 Kings 4:1

“Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

אִשָּׁהʼishshâh · ish-shaw'
H802 · Hebrew

Definition: a woman
Derivation: feminine of H376 (אִישׁ) or H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ); irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ))
KJV renderings: (adulter) ess, each, every, female, [idiom] many, [phrase] none, one, [phrase] together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
אִשָּׁ֣ה — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
Code HC/Ncfsa
Usage: Occurs 781 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:22 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 2:24 Genesis 2:25 Genesis 3:1

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אִשָּׁה here.

Verse 2

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.