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'Wives' in the Bible

Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyShrewdness

But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

Verse ConceptsTragedy

And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given.

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נשׁין 
Nashiyn (Aramaic) 
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