'Wife' in the Bible

In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

But the angel said to him:Do not be afraid, Zechariah,because your prayer has been heard.Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,and you will name him John.

“How can I know this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said,

But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him about Herodias, his brother’s wife, and about all the evil things Herod had done,

Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who were supporting them from their possessions.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Remember Lot’s wife!

So He said to them, “I assure you: There is no one who has left a house, wife or brothers, parents or children because of the kingdom of God,

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”