Definition

a woman

Etymology

feminine of H376 (אִישׁ) or H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ); irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ))

Word family

• אִישׁ ʼîysh
• אֱנוֹשׁ ʼĕnôwsh

How the KJV renders it

• (adulter) ess
• each
• every
• female
• many
• none
• one
• together
• wife
• woman. Often unexpressed in English

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.