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The concept of a wife is introduced in the Book of Genesis, where God creates Eve as a companion for Adam. <a href="/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18</a> states, "The LORD God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.'" This foundational passage establishes the wife as a divinely ordained partner, designed to complement and support her husband. Marriage as a Covenant Marriage is depicted as a sacred covenant between a man and a woman, instituted by God. In <a href="/malachi/2-14.htm">Malachi 2:14</a> , the prophet speaks of marriage as a covenant: "Yet you ask, 'Why?' Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant." This covenantal view underscores the seriousness and sanctity of the marital relationship. Roles and Responsibilities The New Testament further elaborates on the roles and responsibilities of a wife within the marriage. <a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm">Ephesians 5:22-24</a> instructs, "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." This passage highlights the principle of submission, which is often understood as a voluntary and respectful yielding to the husband's leadership, reflecting the relationship between Christ and the Church. However, this submission is balanced by the husband's call to love his wife sacrificially, as Christ loved the Church (<a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Ephesians 5:25</a>). The mutual respect and love between husband and wife are central to the biblical vision of marriage. Proverbs 31: The Virtuous Wife Proverbs 31 provides a detailed portrait of a virtuous wife, emphasizing her industriousness, wisdom, and fear of the Lord. <a href="/proverbs/31-10.htm">Proverbs 31:10-12</a> states, "A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value. She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life." This passage celebrates the wife's role in managing her household, supporting her husband, and contributing to the well-being of her family. Challenges and Redemption The Bible also acknowledges the challenges and complexities within marriage. In <a href="/1_peter/3.htm">1 Peter 3:1-2</a> , wives are encouraged to be a witness to their husbands through their conduct: "Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see your pure and reverent demeanor." This highlights the transformative power of a wife's faith and character. Throughout Scripture, the role of a wife is portrayed as integral to God's design for family and society. The biblical narrative affirms the dignity, value, and essential contribution of wives within the covenant of marriage, reflecting God's purpose and order.<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div>Wife[<a href="../m/marriage.htm">MARRIAGE</a>]<a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (<a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Genesis 2:24</a>; <a href="/matthew/19-4.htm">Matthew 19:4</a>-6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (<a href="/genesis/4-19.htm">Genesis 4:19</a>), and continued to prevail all down through Jewish history. The law of Moses regulated but did not prohibit polygamy. A man might have a plurality of wives, but a wife could have only one husband. A wife's legal rights (<a href="/exodus/21-10.htm">Exodus 21:10</a>) and her duties (<a href="/proverbs/31-10.htm">Proverbs 31:10</a>-31; <a href="/1_timothy/5-14.htm">1 Timothy 5:14</a>) are specified. She could be divorced in special cases (<a href="/deuteronomy/22-13.htm">Deuteronomy 22:13</a>-21), but could not divorce her husband. Divorce was restricted by our Lord to the single case of adultery (<a href="/matthew/19-3.htm">Matthew 19:3</a>-9). The duties of husbands and wives in their relations to each other are distinctly set forth in the New Testament (<a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm">1 Corinthians 7:2</a>-5; <a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm">Ephesians 5:22</a>-33; <a href="/colossians/3-18.htm">Colossians 3:18</a>, 19; <a href="/1_peter/3-1.htm">1 Peter 3:1</a>-7). <a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.2. (n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div>BROTHER'S WIFE(yebhemeth = "a sister-in-law," "brother's wife" (<a href="/deuteronomy/25-7.htm">Deuteronomy 25:7, 9</a>); 'ishshah = "a woman," "wife"; `esheth 'ach = "brother's wife" (<a href="/genesis/38-8.htm">Genesis 38:8, 9</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-16.htm">Leviticus 18:16</a>; <a href="/leviticus/20-21.htm">Leviticus 20:21</a>); he gune tou adelphou = "the brother's wife" (<a href="/mark/6-18.htm">Mark 6:18</a>)): A brother's wife occupies a unique position in Hebrew custom and law, by virtue of the institution of the Levirate. The widow had no hereditary rights in her husband's property, but was considered a part of the estate, and the surviving brother of the deceased was considered the natural heir. The right to inherit the widow soon became a duty to marry her if the deceased had left no sons, and in case there was no brother-in-law, the duty of marriage devolved on the father-in-law or the agnate who inherited, whoever this might be. The first son of the Levirate marriage was regarded as the son of the deceased. This institution is found chiefly among people who hold to ancestral worship (Indians, Persians, Afghans, etc.), from which circumstances Benzinger (New Sch-Herz, IV, 276) derives the explanation of this institution in Israel. The Levirate marriage undoubtedly existed as a custom before the Israelite settlement in Canaan, but after this received special significance because of the succession to the property of the first son of the marriage, since he was reckoned to the deceased, inherited from his putative, not from his real father, thus preventing the disintegration of property and its acquirement by strangers, at the same time perpetuating the family to which it belonged. While the law limited the matrimonial duty to the brother and permitted him to decline to marry the widow, such a course was attended by public disgrace (<a href="/deuteronomy/25-5.htm">Deuteronomy 25:5</a>). By the law of <a href="/numbers/27-8.htm">Numbers 27:8</a>, daughters were given the right to inherit, in order that the family estate might be preserved, and the Levirate became limited to cases where the deceased had left no children at all. Frank E. HirschSTRANGE WIFE"Strange" as contrasted with "an Israelite." Such wives are spoken of in the King James Version <a href="/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2, 11</a> (the English Revised Version "strange women," the American Standard Revised Version "foreign women"; see STRANGER AND SOJOURNER; in the parallel 1 Esdras 8:68-9:37, the King James Version uses "strange wives" and "strange women" indifferently, and the Revised Version (British and American) here follows the King James Version) as "wives of the people of the land," in taking whom the men of Israel are said to have "trespassed against their God." Accordingly such wives were "put away."WIFEwif. See <a href="../m/marriage.htm">MARRIAGE</a>; <a href="../r/relationships.htm">RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY</a>.WIFE, BROTHER'SSee <a href="../m/marriage.htm">MARRIAGE</a>; <a href="../r/relationships.htm">RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY</a>.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/4564.htm">4564. Sarra -- Sarah, the wife of Abraham</a> ... Sarah, the wife of Abraham. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Sarra Phonetic Spelling: (sar'-hrah) Short Definition: Sarah Definition: Sarah, wife ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4564.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4478.htm">4478. Rhachel -- Rachel, the wife of Jacob</a> ... Rachel, the wife of Jacob. Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Rhachel Phonetic Spelling: (hrakh-ale') Short Definition: Rachel Definition ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4478.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/5362.htm">5362. philandros -- loving men, (of a wife) loving her husband</a> ... loving men, (of a wife) loving her husband. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: philandros Phonetic Spelling: (fil'-an-dros) Short Definition: loving ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5362.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4479.htm">4479. Rhebekka -- Rebecca, the wife of Isaac</a> ... Rebecca, the wife of Isaac. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Rhebekka Phonetic Spelling: (hreb-bek'-kah) Short Definition: Rebecca Definition ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4479.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4251.htm">4251. Priska -- Prisca, a Christian and the wife of Aquila</a> ... Prisca, a Christian and the wife of Aquila. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Priska Phonetic Spelling: (pris'-kah) Short Definition: Prisca ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4251.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/1135.htm">1135. gune -- a woman</a> ... a woman. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: gune Phonetic Spelling: (goo-nay') Short Definition: a woman, wife, my lady Definition: a woman, wife ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1135.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/1918.htm">1918. epigambreuo -- to marry</a> ... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: epigambreuo Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-gam- bryoo'-o) Short Definition: I marry a deceased brother's wife Definition: I ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1918.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4801.htm">4801. suzeugnumi -- to yoke together</a> ... Speech: Verb Transliteration: suzeugnumi Phonetic Spelling: (sood-zyoog'-noo-mee) Short Definition: I unite Definition: I yoke together, unite (as man and wife ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4801.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/3994.htm">3994. penthera -- a mother-in-law</a> ... a mother-in-law. Feminine of pentheros; a wife's mother -- mother in law, wife's mother. see GREEK pentheros. (penthera) -- 3 Occurrences. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3994.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3565.htm">3565. numphe -- a bride, a young woman</a> ... Feminine Transliteration: numphe Phonetic Spelling: (noom-fay') Short Definition: a bride, daughter-in-law Definition: (a) a bride, young wife, young woman, (b ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3565.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/802.htm">802. ishshah -- woman, wife, female</a> ... 801, 802. ishshah. 803 . woman, wife, female. Transliteration: ishshah Phonetic Spelling: (ish-shaw') Short Definition: wife. Word ... /hebrew/802.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/472.htm">472. Elisheba -- "God is an oath," the wife of Aaron</a> ... 471, 472. Elisheba. 473 . "God is an oath," the wife of Aaron. Transliteration: Elisheba Phonetic Spelling: (el-ee-sheh'-bah) Short Definition: Elisheba. ... /hebrew/472.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/6989.htm">6989. Qeturah -- a wife of Abraham</a> ... 6988, 6989. Qeturah. 6990 . a wife of Abraham. Transliteration: Qeturah Phonetic Spelling: (ket-oo-raw') Short Definition: Keturah. ... /hebrew/6989.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3812.htm">3812. Leah -- "weary," a wife of Jacob</a> ... "weary," a wife of Jacob. Transliteration: Leah Phonetic Spelling: (lay-aw') Short Definition: Leah. ... Leah. From la'ah; weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob -- Leah. ... /hebrew/3812.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1315.htm">1315. Basemath -- "perfume," a wife of Esau (or perhaps two wives ...</a> ... 1314, 1315. Basemath. 1316 . "perfume," a wife of Esau (or perhaps two wives with the same name), also a daughter of Solomon. Transliteration ... /hebrew/1315.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/37.htm">37. Abital -- "my father is (the) dew," a wife of David</a> ... 36, 37. Abital. 38 . "my father is (the) dew," a wife of David. Transliteration: Abital Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-tal') Short Definition: Abital. ... /hebrew/37.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/4119.htm">4119. mohar -- purchase price (of a wife)</a> ... mohar. 4120 . purchase price (of a wife). Transliteration: mohar Phonetic Spelling: (mo'-har) Short Definition: dowry. ... From mahar; a price (for a wife) -- dowry ... /hebrew/4119.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/621.htm">621. Asenath -- perhaps "belonging to Neith," the wife of Joseph</a> ... 620, 621. Asenath. 622 . perhaps "belonging to Neith," the wife of Joseph. Transliteration: Asenath Phonetic Spelling: (aw-se-nath') Short Definition: Asenath ... /hebrew/621.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7354.htm">7354. Rachel -- a wife of Jacob</a> ... a wife of Jacob. Transliteration: Rachel Phonetic Spelling: (raw-khale') Short Definition: Rachel. ... Rachel. The same as rachel; Rachel, a wife of Jacob -- Rachel. ... /hebrew/7354.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8297.htm">8297. Saray -- a wife of Abram</a> ... a wife of Abram. Transliteration: Saray Phonetic Spelling: (saw-rah'-ee) Short Definition: Sarai. ... From sar; dominative; Sarai, the wife of Abraham -- Sarai. ... /hebrew/8297.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/tertullian/to_his_wife/">To His Wife</a> To His Wife. <. To His Wife Tertullian. Translated by Rev. S. Thelwall Table of Contents. Title Page. Book I. Chapter I.--Design of the Treatise. ... //christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/to his wife/<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_was_lawful_for.htm">Whether it was Lawful for a Divorced Wife to have Another Husband?</a> ... OF THE BILL OF DIVORCE (SEVEN ARTICLES) Whether it was lawful for a divorced wife to have another husband? Objection 1: It would ... //christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it was lawful for.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_husband_and_wife_are_2.htm">Whether Husband and Wife are Equal in the Marriage Act?</a> ... OF THE THINGS ANNEXED TO MARRIAGE, AND FIRST OF THE PAYMENT OF THE MARRIAGE DEBT (TEN ARTICLES) Whether husband and wife are equal in the marriage act? ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether husband and wife are 2.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_wife-murder_is_an_impediment.htm">Whether Wife-Murder is an Impediment to Marriage?</a> ... OF WIFE-MURDER (TWO ARTICLES) Whether wife-murder is an impediment to marriage? Objection 1: It would seem that wife-murder is not an impediment to marriage. ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether wife-murder is an impediment.htm<a href="/library/origen/origens_commentary_on_the_gospel_of_matthew/2_the_harmony_of_husband.htm">The Harmony of Husband and Wife.</a> ... Book XIV. 2. The Harmony of Husband and Wife. So much then for the more common understanding of the two or three whom the Word exhorts to be in agreement. ... /.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/2 the harmony of husband.htm<a href="/library/benincasa/letters_of_catherine_benincasa/to_monna_agnese_who_was.htm">To Monna Agnese who was the Wife of Messer Orso Malavolti</a> ... LETTERS TO MONNA AGNESE WHO WAS THE WIFE OF MESSER ORSO MALAVOLTI. Catherine is well aware that the world can be as true a school ... /.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to monna agnese who was.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_was_lawful_to.htm">Whether it was Lawful to Divorce a Wife under the Mosaic Law?</a> ... OF THE BILL OF DIVORCE (SEVEN ARTICLES) Whether it was lawful to divorce a wife under the Mosaic law? Objection 1: It would seem ... //christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it was lawful to.htm<a href="/library/pamphilius/the_life_of_constantine/chapter_xxxiv_how_the_wife_of.htm">How the Wife of a Prefect Slew Herself for Chastity's Sake.</a> ... The Life of the blessed emperor constantine, by eusebius pamphilus. Book I. Chapter XXXIV."How the Wife of a Prefect slew herself for Chastity's Sake. ... /.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter xxxiv how the wife of.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_allowable_for.htm">Whether it is Allowable for a Menstruous Wife to Ask for the ...</a> ... OF THE THINGS ANNEXED TO MARRIAGE, AND FIRST OF THE PAYMENT OF THE MARRIAGE DEBT (TEN ARTICLES) Whether it is allowable for a menstruous wife to ask for the ... /.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is allowable for.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_inseparableness_of_the_wife.htm">Whether Inseparableness of the Wife is of Natural Law?</a> ... OF THE BILL OF DIVORCE (SEVEN ARTICLES) Whether inseparableness of the wife is of natural law? ... But no law save Christ's has forbidden the divorcing of a wife. ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether inseparableness of the wife.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/w/wife.htm">Wife (437 Occurrences)</a> ... The law of Moses regulated but did not prohibit polygamy. A man might have a plurality of wives, but a wife could have only one husband. ... BROTHER'S WIFE. ... /w/wife.htm - 42k<a href="/topical/w/wife's.htm">Wife's (21 Occurrences)</a> ... Multi-Version Concordance Wife's (21 Occurrences). Matthew 8:14 When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. ... /w/wife's.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/s/servant-wife.htm">Servant-wife (12 Occurrences)</a> Servant-wife. Servant's, Servant-wife. Servant-wives . Multi-Version Concordance Servant-wife (12 Occurrences). Judges ... /s/servant-wife.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/c/covenant-wife.htm">Covenant-wife (1 Occurrence)</a> Covenant-wife. Covenant-victim, Covenant-wife. Cover . Multi-Version Concordance Covenant-wife (1 Occurrence). Malachi ... /c/covenant-wife.htm - 6k<a href="/topical/m/mid-wife.htm">Mid-wife (1 Occurrence)</a> Mid-wife. Midwife, Mid-wife. Midwives . Multi-Version Concordance Mid-wife (1 Occurrence). Genesis 35:17 And it came ... /m/mid-wife.htm - 6k<a href="/topical/b/bashemath.htm">Bashemath (6 Occurrences)</a> ... (2.) A daughter of Solomon, and wife of Ahimaaz, one of his officers (1 Kings 4:15). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BASEMATH; BASHEMATH; BASMATH. ... /b/bashemath.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/b/basemath.htm">Basemath (7 Occurrences)</a> ... (2) Basemath (the King James Version Bashemath), another wife of Esau, a daughter of Ishmael and a sister of Nebaioth (Genesis 36:3, 4, 10, 13, 17). ... /b/basemath.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/a/ab'igail.htm">Ab'igail (16 Occurrences)</a> ... 1 Samuel 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the ... /a/ab'igail.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/a/abim'elech.htm">Abim'elech (58 Occurrences)</a> ... Abim'elech (58 Occurrences). Genesis 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: 'She is my sister.' And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. (See RSV). ... /a/abim'elech.htm - 22k<a href="/topical/a/abihail.htm">Abihail (6 Occurrences)</a> ... (2.) 1 Chronicles 2:29. (3.) 1 Chronicles 5:14. (4.) The second wife of King Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:18), a descendant of Eliab, David's eldest brother. ... /a/abihail.htm - 10k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/godly-wife.html">What does it mean to be a godly wife? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-wife.html">What does the Bible say about being a Christian wife? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Potiphars-wife.html">What can we learn from the account of Potiphar's wife? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/wife.htm">Wife: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Wife (437 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/1-6.htm">Matthew 1:6</a> Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/1-20.htm">Matthew 1:20</a> But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/1-24.htm">Matthew 1:24</a> Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself; (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27</a> You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife: (BBE)<a href="/matthew/5-31.htm">Matthew 5:31</a> "It was also said,'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/5-32.htm">Matthew 5:32</a> but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/14-3.htm">Matthew 14:3</a> For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/18-25.htm">Matthew 18:25</a> But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/19-3.htm">Matthew 19:3</a> Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?" (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/19-5.htm">Matthew 19:5</a> and said,'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/19-7.htm">Matthew 19:7</a> They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?" (See NIV)<a href="/matthew/19-9.htm">Matthew 19:9</a> I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/19-10.htm">Matthew 19:10</a> His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/19-29.htm">Matthew 19:29</a> Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. (WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/matthew/22-24.htm">Matthew 22:24</a> saying, "Teacher, Moses said,'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.' (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/matthew/22-25.htm">Matthew 22:25</a> Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/22-28.htm">Matthew 22:28</a> In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/27-19.htm">Matthew 27:19</a> While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/1-30.htm">Mark 1:30</a> Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. of seed shall yield an ephah. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS)<a href="/mark/6-17.htm">Mark 6:17</a> For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/6-18.htm">Mark 6:18</a> For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/7-22.htm">Mark 7:22</a> The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: (BBE)<a href="/mark/10-2.htm">Mark 10:2</a> Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/10-4.htm">Mark 10:4</a> "Moses," they said, "permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away." (WEY)<a href="/mark/10-7.htm">Mark 10:7</a> For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/10-11.htm">Mark 10:11</a> He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/10-29.htm">Mark 10:29</a> Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, (WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/mark/12-19.htm">Mark 12:19</a> "Teacher, Moses wrote to us,'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/12-20.htm">Mark 12:20</a> There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/mark/12-23.htm">Mark 12:23</a> In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/1-5.htm">Luke 1:5</a> There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/1-13.htm">Luke 1:13</a> But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/1-18.htm">Luke 1:18</a> Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/1-24.htm">Luke 1:24</a> After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/2-5.htm">Luke 2:5</a> to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant. (WEB KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/luke/3-19.htm">Luke 3:19</a> but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/4-38.htm">Luke 4:38</a> And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. (KJV ASV BBE WBS)<a href="/luke/8-3.htm">Luke 8:3</a> and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/14-20.htm">Luke 14:20</a> "Another said,'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.' (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/luke/14-26.htm">Luke 14:26</a> "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/16-18.htm">Luke 16:18</a> Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/17-32.htm">Luke 17:32</a> Remember Lot's wife! (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/18-20.htm">Luke 18:20</a> You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother. (BBE)<a href="/luke/18-29.htm">Luke 18:29</a> He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/20-28.htm">Luke 20:28</a> They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/20-29.htm">Luke 20:29</a> There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/luke/20-30.htm">Luke 20:30</a> The second took her as wife, and he died childless. (WEB KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/luke/20-33.htm">Luke 20:33</a> Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/john/19-25.htm">John 19:25</a> But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/5-1.htm">Acts 5:1</a> But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/5-2.htm">Acts 5:2</a> and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/5-7.htm">Acts 5:7</a> About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/18-2.htm">Acts 18:2</a> He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/24-24.htm">Acts 24:24</a> But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/romans/2-22.htm">Romans 2:22</a> You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? (BBE)<a href="/romans/7-2.htm">Romans 7:2</a> A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her. (WEY)<a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1</a> It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm">1 Corinthians 7:2</a> But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-3.htm">1 Corinthians 7:3</a> Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-4.htm">1 Corinthians 7:4</a> The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm">1 Corinthians 7:10</a> But to the married I command-not I, but the Lord-that the wife not leave her husband (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-11.htm">1 Corinthians 7:11</a> (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-12.htm">1 Corinthians 7:12</a> But to the rest I-not the Lord-say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-14.htm">1 Corinthians 7:14</a> For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-16.htm">1 Corinthians 7:16</a> For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-27.htm">1 Corinthians 7:27</a> Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-33.htm">1 Corinthians 7:33</a> but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-34.htm">1 Corinthians 7:34</a> There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world-how she may please her husband. (WEB KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-39.htm">1 Corinthians 7:39</a> A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_corinthians/9-5.htm">1 Corinthians 9:5</a> Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm">Ephesians 5:23</a> For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm">Ephesians 5:28</a> Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm">Ephesians 5:31</a> "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/5-33.htm">Ephesians 5:33</a> Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:4</a> that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour; (WEY RSV)<a href="/1_timothy/2-14.htm">1 Timothy 2:14</a> and Adam was not deceived, but his wife was thoroughly deceived, and so became involved in transgression. (WEY)<a href="/1_timothy/3-2.htm">1 Timothy 3:2</a> The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/3-12.htm">1 Timothy 3:12</a> Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/5-9.htm">1 Timothy 5:9</a> Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/titus/1-6.htm">Titus 1:6</a> if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7</a> Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/revelation/21-9.htm">Revelation 21:9</a> One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Genesis 2:24</a> Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/2-25.htm">Genesis 2:25</a> They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/3-8.htm">Genesis 3:8</a> They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/3-17.htm">Genesis 3:17</a> To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying,'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/3-20.htm">Genesis 3:20</a> The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/3-21.htm">Genesis 3:21</a> Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/4-1.htm">Genesis 4:1</a> The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/4-17.htm">Genesis 4:17</a> Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/4-25.htm">Genesis 4:25</a> Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/6-2.htm">Genesis 6:2</a> that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. (See RSV)<a href="/genesis/6-18.htm">Genesis 6:18</a> But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/7-7.htm">Genesis 7:7</a> Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/7-13.htm">Genesis 7:13</a> In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/8-15.htm">Genesis 8:15</a> And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, 'Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee; (YLT)<a href="/genesis/8-16.htm">Genesis 8:16</a> "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/8-18.htm">Genesis 8:18</a> Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/11-29.htm">Genesis 11:29</a> Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/11-31.htm">Genesis 11:31</a> Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/concordance/w/wife2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><a href="/topical/w/wife.htm">Wife</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--bath-sheba.htm">Wife: Bath-Sheba</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--beloved,_by_isaac.htm">Wife: Beloved, by Isaac</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--beloved,_by_jacob.htm">Wife: Beloved, by Jacob</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--called--desire_of_the_eyes.htm">Wife: Called: Desire of the Eyes</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--contentious,_zipporah.htm">Wife: Contentious, Zipporah</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--domestic_duties_of.htm">Wife: Domestic Duties of</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--fruitful_vine.htm">Wife: Fruitful Vine</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--hated.htm">Wife: Hated</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--help.htm">Wife: Help</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--idolatrous,_solomon's_wives.htm">Wife: Idolatrous, Solomon's Wives</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--incorruptible,_vashti.htm">Wife: Incorruptible, Vashti</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--jezebel.htm">Wife: Jezebel</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--loyal.htm">Wife: Loyal</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--obtained_by_violence.htm">Wife: Obtained by Violence</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--potiphar's.htm">Wife: Potiphar's</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--procured.htm">Wife: Procured</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--purchased.htm">Wife: Purchased</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--relation_of,_to_husband.htm">Wife: Relation of, to Husband</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--tactful_abigail.htm">Wife: Tactful Abigail</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--the_judgment_denounced_against_eve.htm">Wife: The Judgment Denounced Against Eve</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--unclassified_scriptures_relating_to.htm">Wife: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--unfaithful.htm">Wife: Unfaithful</a><a href="/topical/naves/w/wife--vows_of.htm">Wife: Vows of</a><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><a href="/topical/w/wife's.htm">Wife's (21 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/servant-wife.htm">Servant-wife (12 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/covenant-wife.htm">Covenant-wife (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/m/mid-wife.htm">Mid-wife (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/b/bashemath.htm">Bashemath (6 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/basemath.htm">Basemath (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/ab'igail.htm">Ab'igail (16 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abim'elech.htm">Abim'elech (58 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abihail.htm">Abihail (6 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/basmath.htm">Basmath (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/childless.htm">Childless (25 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sar'ai.htm">Sar'ai (12 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abigail.htm">Abigail (18 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/bathsheba.htm">Bathsheba (14 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/concubine.htm">Concubine (21 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/committeth.htm">Committeth (22 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abram's.htm">Abram's (8 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/ahinoam.htm">Ahinoam (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sex.htm">Sex (51 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/z/zeresh.htm">Zeresh (3 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/brother's.htm">Brother's (46 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/bath-sheba.htm">Bath-sheba (12 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/bas'emath.htm">Bas'emath (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sexual.htm">Sexual (59 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/commits.htm">Commits (39 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/conceiveth.htm">Conceiveth (27 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/cleave.htm">Cleave (52 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/achsah.htm">Achsah (5 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/ahi'jah.htm">Ahi'jah (22 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abigal.htm">Abigal (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/s/son-in-law.htm">Son-in-law (14 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abram.htm">Abram (48 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sarai.htm">Sarai (13 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/aquila.htm">Aquila (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/son's.htm">Son's (34 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/ahijah.htm">Ahijah (23 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/conceived.htm">Conceived (66 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/cheer.htm">Cheer (22 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/beareth.htm">Beareth (108 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abimelech.htm">Abimelech (63 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/v/virtue.htm">Virtue (21 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/cleophas.htm">Cleophas (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/a/acsah.htm">Acsah (5 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/adulteress.htm">Adulteress (12 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/amram.htm">Amram (14 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/aunt.htm">Aunt (3 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/aholibamah.htm">Aholibamah (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/ahin'o-am.htm">Ahin'o-am (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/adah.htm">Adah (8 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/anah.htm">Anah (10 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sister-in-law.htm">Sister-in-law (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/s/sleeps.htm">Sleeps (20 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/z/zacharias.htm">Zacharias (11 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/barzillai.htm">Barzillai (10 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sake.htm">Sake (241 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/acquired.htm">Acquired (32 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/abijah.htm">Abijah (32 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/connection.htm">Connection (72 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/buried.htm">Buried (125 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/sarah.htm">Sarah (38 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/cause.htm">Cause (1309 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/becometh.htm">Becometh (82 Occurrences)</a><a 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