'Wife' in the Bible

The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.

So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.