What does "Wife" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Wife?

The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (Gen. 4:19), and continued to prevail all down through Jewish history. The law of Moses regulated but did not prohibit polygamy. A man might have a plurality of wives, but a wife could have only one husband. A wife’s legal rights (Ex. 21:10) and her duties (Prov. 31:10-31; 1 Tim. 5:14) are specified. She could be divorced in special cases (Deut. 22:13-21), but could not divorce her husband. Divorce was restricted by our Lord to the single case of adultery (Matt. 19:3-9). The duties of husbands and wives in their relations to each other are distinctly set forth in the New Testament (1 Cor. 7:2-5; Eph. 5:22-33; Col. 3:18, 19; 1 Pet. 3:1-7).

What is the Hebrew word for Wife?

Where does Wife appear in the Bible?

Wife is referenced in 210 verses across 32 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• 1 Chronicles 7:23
• 1 Chronicles 8:29
• 1 Chronicles 9:35
• 1 Corinthians 5:1
• 1 Corinthians 7:2
• 1 Corinthians 7:3
• 1 Corinthians 7:4
• 1 Corinthians 7:10
• 1 Corinthians 7:11
• 1 Corinthians 7:12
• 1 Corinthians 7:14
• 1 Corinthians 7:16
• 1 Corinthians 7:27
• 1 Corinthians 7:33
• 1 Corinthians 7:39
• 1 Corinthians 9:5
• 1 Kings 14:5
• 1 Kings 14:17
• 1 Kings 21:5
• 1 Kings 21:7
• 1 Kings 21:25
• 1 Samuel 1:4
• 1 Samuel 1:19
• 1 Samuel 4:19

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Wife.