Wife אִשָּׁה

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Mar 17, 2025 · 5m

We are moving into chapter 28 of Genesis today where we find our word for today. אִשָּׁה woman, wife, female. It is used 772 times in the Old Testament. We see it first used in the Bible at the very beginning. Genesis 2:22-24 Then the Lord God made a אִשָּׁה woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called אִשָּׁה ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his אִשָּׁה wife, and they become one flesh. You may have…