14 occurrences

'Wife' in the Bible

It happened that in the days of Herod, king of Judea, [there was] a certain priest, Zechariah by name, of the division of Abijah. And {he had a wife} 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, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.

And Zechariah said to the angel, "By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced {in years}!"

Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion [for] five months, saying,

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, and concerning all the evil deeds that Herod had done,

and Joanna the wife of Chuza (Herod's household manager), and Susanna, and many others who were helping to support them from their possessions.

"Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from [her] husband commits adultery.

saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

Therefore in the resurrection, the woman--whose wife will she be? For the seven had her [as] wife."

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בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 15

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

דּודה 
Dowdah 
Usage: 3

יבמת 
Y@bemeth 
Usage: 5

שׁגל 
Shegal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

γαμέω 
Gameo 
marry , married , marry a wife , 9
Usage: 15

γραώδης 
Graodes 
Usage: 1

γυναικεῖος 
Gunaikeios 
Usage: 1

γυνή 
Gune 
Usage: 187

πενθερά 
Penthera 
Usage: 3