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What does the Bible say about Women? Here 1,404 verses related to Women. Use this table of contents to go to any section:

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Creation of

GENESIS 1:27In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

GENESIS 2:21,22Verses in the Bible

  • 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
    Genesis 2:21 Meaning
  • 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
    Genesis 2:22 Meaning

Named

GENESIS 2:23In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Fall Of, and Curse Upon

GENESIS 3:1-16Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
    Genesis 3:1 Meaning
  • 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
    Genesis 3:2 Meaning
  • 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
    Genesis 3:3 Meaning
  • 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
    Genesis 3:4 Meaning
  • 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
    Genesis 3:5 Meaning
  • 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
    Genesis 3:6 Meaning
  • 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
    Genesis 3:7 Meaning
  • 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
    Genesis 3:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
    Genesis 3:9 Meaning
  • 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
    Genesis 3:10 Meaning
  • 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
    Genesis 3:11 Meaning
  • 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
    Genesis 3:12 Meaning
  • 13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
    Genesis 3:13 Meaning
  • 14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
    Genesis 3:14 Meaning
  • 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
    Genesis 3:15 Meaning
  • 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
    Genesis 3:16 Meaning

2 CORINTHIANS 11:3In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

1 TIMOTHY 2:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Promise to

GENESIS 3:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Had Separate Apartments in Dwellings

GENESIS 24:67In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

GENESIS 31:33In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

ESTHER 2:9,11Verses in the Bible

  • 9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
    Esther 2:9 Meaning
  • 10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
    Esther 2:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
    Esther 2:11 Meaning

Veiled the Face

GENESIS 24:65In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

• See Vail

Vows of

NUMBERS 30:3-16Verses in the Bible

  • 3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
    Numbers 30:3 Meaning
  • 4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
    Numbers 30:4 Meaning
  • 5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
    Numbers 30:5 Meaning
  • 6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
    Numbers 30:6 Meaning
  • 7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
    Numbers 30:7 Meaning
  • 8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.
    Numbers 30:8 Meaning
  • 9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
    Numbers 30:9 Meaning
  • 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
    Numbers 30:10 Meaning
  • 11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
    Numbers 30:11 Meaning
  • 12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.
    Numbers 30:12 Meaning
  • 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
    Numbers 30:13 Meaning
  • 14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
    Numbers 30:14 Meaning
  • 15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
    Numbers 30:15 Meaning
  • 16 These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
    Numbers 30:16 Meaning

When Jealously Charged With Infidelity, Their Guilt or Innocence Was to Be Determined by an Ordeal

NUMBERS 5:12-31Verses in the Bible

  • 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
    Numbers 5:12 Meaning
  • 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
    Numbers 5:13 Meaning
  • 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
    Numbers 5:14 Meaning
  • 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
    Numbers 5:15 Meaning
  • 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:
    Numbers 5:16 Meaning
  • 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
    Numbers 5:17 Meaning
  • 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
    Numbers 5:18 Meaning
  • 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
    Numbers 5:19 Meaning
  • 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
    Numbers 5:20 Meaning
  • 21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
    Numbers 5:21 Meaning
  • 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
    Numbers 5:22 Meaning
  • 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
    Numbers 5:23 Meaning
  • 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
    Numbers 5:24 Meaning
  • 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:
    Numbers 5:25 Meaning
  • 26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
    Numbers 5:26 Meaning
  • 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
    Numbers 5:27 Meaning
  • 28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
    Numbers 5:28 Meaning
  • 29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
    Numbers 5:29 Meaning
  • 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
    Numbers 5:30 Meaning
  • 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
    Numbers 5:31 Meaning

Took Part in Ancient Worship

EXODUS 15:20In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

EXODUS 21Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
    Exodus 21:1 Meaning
  • 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
    Exodus 21:2 Meaning
  • 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
    Exodus 21:3 Meaning
  • 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
    Exodus 21:4 Meaning
  • 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
    Exodus 21:5 Meaning
  • 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
    Exodus 21:6 Meaning
  • 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
    Exodus 21:7 Meaning
  • 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
    Exodus 21:8 Meaning
  • 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
    Exodus 21:9 Meaning
  • 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
    Exodus 21:10 Meaning
  • 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
    Exodus 21:11 Meaning
  • 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
    Exodus 21:12 Meaning
  • 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
    Exodus 21:13 Meaning
  • 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
    Exodus 21:14 Meaning
  • 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
    Exodus 21:15 Meaning
  • 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
    Exodus 21:16 Meaning
  • 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
    Exodus 21:17 Meaning
  • 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
    Exodus 21:18 Meaning
  • 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
    Exodus 21:19 Meaning
  • 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
    Exodus 21:20 Meaning
  • 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
    Exodus 21:21 Meaning
  • 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
    Exodus 21:22 Meaning
  • 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
    Exodus 21:23 Meaning
  • 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
    Exodus 21:24 Meaning
  • 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
    Exodus 21:25 Meaning
  • 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
    Exodus 21:26 Meaning
  • 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
    Exodus 21:27 Meaning
  • 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
    Exodus 21:28 Meaning
  • 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
    Exodus 21:29 Meaning
  • 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
    Exodus 21:30 Meaning
  • 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
    Exodus 21:31 Meaning
  • 32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
    Exodus 21:32 Meaning
  • 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
    Exodus 21:33 Meaning
  • 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
    Exodus 21:34 Meaning
  • 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
    Exodus 21:35 Meaning
  • 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
    Exodus 21:36 Meaning

EXODUS 38:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

1 SAMUEL 2:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

In Chorus

1 CHRONICLES 25:5,6Verses in the Bible

  • 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
    1 Chronicles 25:5 Meaning
  • 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
    1 Chronicles 25:6 Meaning

EZRA 2:65In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

NEHEMIAH 7:67In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

Worshiped in Separate Compartments

EXODUS 38:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

1 SAMUEL 2:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Consecrated Jewels to Tabernacle

EXODUS 35:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.

Mirrors

EXODUS 38:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Required to Attend to the Reading of the Law of Moses

DEUTERONOMY 31:12In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

JOSHUA 8:35In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

Purifications of Women

• After Menstruation

LEVITICUS 15:19-33Verses in the Bible

  • 19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
    Leviticus 15:19 Meaning
  • 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
    Leviticus 15:20 Meaning
  • 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
    Leviticus 15:21 Meaning
  • 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
    Leviticus 15:22 Meaning
  • 23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
    Leviticus 15:23 Meaning
  • 24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
    Leviticus 15:24 Meaning
  • 25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
    Leviticus 15:25 Meaning
  • 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
    Leviticus 15:26 Meaning
  • 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
    Leviticus 15:27 Meaning
  • 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
    Leviticus 15:28 Meaning
  • 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
    Leviticus 15:29 Meaning
  • 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness.
    Leviticus 15:30 Meaning
  • 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
    Leviticus 15:31 Meaning
  • 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
    Leviticus 15:32 Meaning
  • 33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
    Leviticus 15:33 Meaning

2 SAMUEL 11:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

• After Childbirth

LEVITICUS 12Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
    Leviticus 12:1 Meaning
  • 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
    Leviticus 12:2 Meaning
  • 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
    Leviticus 12:3 Meaning
  • 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
    Leviticus 12:4 Meaning
  • 5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
    Leviticus 12:5 Meaning
  • 6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
    Leviticus 12:6 Meaning
  • 7 Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
    Leviticus 12:7 Meaning
  • 8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
    Leviticus 12:8 Meaning

LUKE 2:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;

Difference in Ceremonies Made Between Male and Female Children

LEVITICUS 12Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
    Leviticus 12:1 Meaning
  • 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
    Leviticus 12:2 Meaning
  • 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
    Leviticus 12:3 Meaning
  • 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
    Leviticus 12:4 Meaning
  • 5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
    Leviticus 12:5 Meaning
  • 6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
    Leviticus 12:6 Meaning
  • 7 Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
    Leviticus 12:7 Meaning
  • 8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
    Leviticus 12:8 Meaning

Religious Privileges Of, Among Early Christians

ACTS 1:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

ACTS 12:12,13Verses in the Bible

  • 12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
    Acts 12:12 Meaning
  • 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
    Acts 12:13 Meaning

1 CORINTHIANS 11:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:34In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

1 TIMOTHY 2:11In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Domestic Duties of

GENESIS 18:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

PROVERBS 31:15-19Verses in the Bible

MATTHEW 24:41In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Cooked

GENESIS 18:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Spun

EXODUS 35:25,26Verses in the Bible

  • 25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
    Exodus 35:25 Meaning
  • 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
    Exodus 35:26 Meaning

1 SAMUEL 2:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

PROVERBS 31:19-24Verses in the Bible

Embroidered

PROVERBS 31:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

Made Garments

ACTS 9:39In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Gleaned

RUTH 2:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:

Kept Vineyards

SONG OF SOLOMON 1:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Tended Flocks and Herds

GENESIS 24:11,13,14,19,20Verses in the Bible

  • 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
    Genesis 24:11 Meaning
  • 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
    Genesis 24:13 Meaning
  • 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
    Genesis 24:14 Meaning
  • 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
    Genesis 24:19 Meaning
  • 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
    Genesis 24:20 Meaning

GENESIS 29:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

EXODUS 2:16In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Worked in Fields

ISAIAH 27:11In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

EZEKIEL 26:6,8Verses in the Bible

  • 6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 26:6 Meaning
  • 7 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
    Ezekiel 26:7 Meaning
  • 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
    Ezekiel 26:8 Meaning

Was a Doorkeeper

MATTHEW 26:69In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.

JOHN 18:16,17Verses in the Bible

  • 16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
    John 18:16 Meaning
  • 17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.
    John 18:17 Meaning

ACTS 12:13,14Verses in the Bible

  • 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
    Acts 12:13 Meaning
  • 14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
    Acts 12:14 Meaning

Forbidden to Wear Men's Costume

DEUTERONOMY 22:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Wore Hair Long

1 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15Verses in the Bible

Rules for Dress of Christian

1 TIMOTHY 2:9,10Verses in the Bible

  • 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
    1 Timothy 2:9 Meaning
  • 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
    1 Timothy 2:10 Meaning

1 PETER 3:3,4Verses in the Bible

  • 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
    1 Peter 3:3 Meaning
  • 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
    1 Peter 3:4 Meaning

Ornaments of

ISAIAH 3:16-23Verses in the Bible

  • 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
    Isaiah 3:16 Meaning
  • 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
    Isaiah 3:17 Meaning
  • 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
    Isaiah 3:18 Meaning
  • 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
    Isaiah 3:19 Meaning
  • 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
    Isaiah 3:20 Meaning
  • 21 The rings, and nose jewels,
    Isaiah 3:21 Meaning
  • 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
    Isaiah 3:22 Meaning
  • 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
    Isaiah 3:23 Meaning

Weaker Than Men

1 PETER 3:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Are Timid

ISAIAH 19:16In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

JEREMIAH 50:37In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

JEREMIAH 51:30In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

NAHUM 3:13In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

Are Affectionate

2 SAMUEL 1:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Are Tender to Her Offspring

ISAIAH 49:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

LAMENTATIONS 4:10In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Are Mirthsome

JUDGES 11:34In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

JUDGES 21:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

JEREMIAH 31:13In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

ZECHARIAH 9:17In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

Are Courteous to Strangers

GENESIS 24:17In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

GENESIS 24:3,4Verses in the Bible

  • 3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
    Genesis 24:3 Meaning
  • 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
    Genesis 24:4 Meaning

GENESIS 34:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

EXODUS 22:17In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Not to Be Given in Marriage Was Considered a Calamity

JUDGES 11:37In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

PSALM 78:63In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

ISAIAH 4:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Taken Captive

NUMBERS 31:9,15,17,18,35Verses in the Bible

  • 9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
    Numbers 31:9 Meaning
  • 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
    Numbers 31:17 Meaning
  • 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
    Numbers 31:18 Meaning
  • 35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
    Numbers 31:35 Meaning

LAMENTATIONS 1:18In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 18 The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

EZEKIEL 30:17,18Verses in the Bible

  • 17 The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
    Ezekiel 30:17 Meaning
  • 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
    Ezekiel 30:18 Meaning

Punishment to Be Inflicted Upon Men for Seducing, When Betrothed

DEUTERONOMY 22:23-27Verses in the Bible

  • 23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
    Deuteronomy 22:23 Meaning
  • 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
    Deuteronomy 22:24 Meaning
  • 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
    Deuteronomy 22:25 Meaning
  • 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
    Deuteronomy 22:26 Meaning
  • 27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
    Deuteronomy 22:27 Meaning

Punishment for Seducing, When Not Betrothed

EXODUS 22:16,17Verses in the Bible

  • 16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
    Exodus 22:16 Meaning
  • 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
    Exodus 22:17 Meaning

DEUTERONOMY 22:28,29Verses in the Bible

  • 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
    Deuteronomy 22:28 Meaning
  • 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
    Deuteronomy 22:29 Meaning

Treated With Cruelty in War

DEUTERONOMY 32:25In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

LAMENTATIONS 2:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

LAMENTATIONS 5:11In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Virtuous, Held in High Estimation

RUTH 3:11In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

PROVERBS 31:10-30Verses in the Bible

Fond of Self-Indulgence

ISAIAH 32:9-11Verses in the Bible

  • 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
    Isaiah 32:9 Meaning
  • 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
    Isaiah 32:10 Meaning
  • 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
    Isaiah 32:11 Meaning

Fond of Ornaments

JEREMIAH 2:32In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Subtle and Deceitful

PROVERBS 6:24-29,32-35Verses in the Bible

  • 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
    Proverbs 6:24 Meaning
  • 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
    Proverbs 6:25 Meaning
  • 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
    Proverbs 6:26 Meaning
  • 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
    Proverbs 6:27 Meaning
  • 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
    Proverbs 6:28 Meaning
  • 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
    Proverbs 6:29 Meaning
  • 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
    Proverbs 6:32 Meaning
  • 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
    Proverbs 6:33 Meaning
  • 34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
    Proverbs 6:34 Meaning
  • 35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
    Proverbs 6:35 Meaning

PROVERBS 7:6-27Verses in the Bible

  • 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
    Proverbs 7:6 Meaning
  • 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
    Proverbs 7:7 Meaning
  • 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
    Proverbs 7:8 Meaning
  • 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
    Proverbs 7:9 Meaning
  • 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
    Proverbs 7:10 Meaning
  • 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
    Proverbs 7:11 Meaning
  • 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
    Proverbs 7:12 Meaning
  • 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
    Proverbs 7:13 Meaning
  • 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
    Proverbs 7:14 Meaning
  • 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
    Proverbs 7:15 Meaning
  • 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
    Proverbs 7:16 Meaning
  • 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
    Proverbs 7:17 Meaning
  • 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
    Proverbs 7:18 Meaning
  • 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
    Proverbs 7:19 Meaning
  • 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
    Proverbs 7:20 Meaning
  • 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
    Proverbs 7:21 Meaning
  • 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
    Proverbs 7:22 Meaning
  • 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
    Proverbs 7:23 Meaning
  • 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
    Proverbs 7:24 Meaning
  • 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
    Proverbs 7:25 Meaning
  • 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
    Proverbs 7:26 Meaning
  • 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
    Proverbs 7:27 Meaning

ECCLESIASTES 7:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Silly, and Easily Led Into Error

2 TIMOTHY 3:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

Zealous in Promoting Superstition and Idolatry

JEREMIAH 7:18In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

EZEKIEL 13:17,23Verses in the Bible

  • 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
    Ezekiel 13:17 Meaning
  • 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 13:23 Meaning

Active in Instigating to Iniquity

NUMBERS 31:15,16Verses in the Bible

  • 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
    Numbers 31:15 Meaning
  • 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
    Numbers 31:16 Meaning

1 KINGS 21:25In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

NEHEMIAH 13:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

Guilty of Sodomy

2 KINGS 23:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

ROMANS 1:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

As Rulers

ISAIAH 3:12In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Deborah

JUDGES 4:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

Athaliah

2 KINGS 11:1-16Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
    2 Kings 11:1 Meaning
  • 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
    2 Kings 11:2 Meaning
  • 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
    2 Kings 11:3 Meaning
  • 4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king's son.
    2 Kings 11:4 Meaning
  • 5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
    2 Kings 11:5 Meaning
  • 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
    2 Kings 11:6 Meaning
  • 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.
    2 Kings 11:7 Meaning
  • 8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
    2 Kings 11:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
    2 Kings 11:9 Meaning
  • 10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the Lord.
    2 Kings 11:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
    2 Kings 11:11 Meaning
  • 12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
    2 Kings 11:12 Meaning
  • 13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.
    2 Kings 11:13 Meaning
  • 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
    2 Kings 11:14 Meaning
  • 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.
    2 Kings 11:15 Meaning
  • 16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
    2 Kings 11:16 Meaning

2 CHRONICLES 22:2,3,10-12Verses in the Bible

  • 2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
    2 Chronicles 22:2 Meaning
  • 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.
    2 Chronicles 22:3 Meaning
  • 10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
    2 Chronicles 22:10 Meaning
  • 11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
    2 Chronicles 22:11 Meaning
  • 12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
    2 Chronicles 22:12 Meaning

Queen of Sheba

1 KINGS 10:1-13Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.
    1 Kings 10:1 Meaning
  • 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
    1 Kings 10:2 Meaning
  • 3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
    1 Kings 10:3 Meaning
  • 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
    1 Kings 10:4 Meaning
  • 5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
    1 Kings 10:5 Meaning
  • 6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
    1 Kings 10:6 Meaning
  • 7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
    1 Kings 10:7 Meaning
  • 8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
    1 Kings 10:8 Meaning
  • 9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
    1 Kings 10:9 Meaning
  • 10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
    1 Kings 10:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
    1 Kings 10:11 Meaning
  • 12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
    1 Kings 10:12 Meaning
  • 13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
    1 Kings 10:13 Meaning

Queen Candace

ACTS 8:27In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

A Persian Queen Sat on a Throne Beside Her King

NEHEMIAH 2:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Patriotic

• Miriam

EXODUS 15:20In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

• Deborah

JUDGES 5Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
    Judges 5:1 Meaning
  • 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
    Judges 5:2 Meaning
  • 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
    Judges 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
    Judges 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
    Judges 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
    Judges 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
    Judges 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
    Judges 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.
    Judges 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
    Judges 5:10 Meaning
  • 11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
    Judges 5:11 Meaning
  • 12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
    Judges 5:12 Meaning
  • 13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
    Judges 5:13 Meaning
  • 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
    Judges 5:14 Meaning
  • 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
    Judges 5:15 Meaning
  • 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
    Judges 5:16 Meaning
  • 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
    Judges 5:17 Meaning
  • 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
    Judges 5:18 Meaning
  • 19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
    Judges 5:19 Meaning
  • 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
    Judges 5:20 Meaning
  • 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
    Judges 5:21 Meaning
  • 22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
    Judges 5:22 Meaning
  • 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
    Judges 5:23 Meaning
  • 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
    Judges 5:24 Meaning
  • 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
    Judges 5:25 Meaning
  • 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
    Judges 5:26 Meaning
  • 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    Judges 5:27 Meaning
  • 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
    Judges 5:28 Meaning
  • 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
    Judges 5:29 Meaning
  • 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
    Judges 5:30 Meaning
  • 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
    Judges 5:31 Meaning

• The Women of Israel

1 SAMUEL 18:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

• The Women of the Philistines

2 SAMUEL 1:20In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Help in Defensive Operations

JUDGES 9:53In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

As poets

• Miriam

EXODUS 15:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

• Deborah

JUDGES 5Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
    Judges 5:1 Meaning
  • 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
    Judges 5:2 Meaning
  • 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
    Judges 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
    Judges 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
    Judges 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
    Judges 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
    Judges 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
    Judges 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.
    Judges 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
    Judges 5:10 Meaning
  • 11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
    Judges 5:11 Meaning
  • 12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
    Judges 5:12 Meaning
  • 13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
    Judges 5:13 Meaning
  • 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
    Judges 5:14 Meaning
  • 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
    Judges 5:15 Meaning
  • 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
    Judges 5:16 Meaning
  • 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
    Judges 5:17 Meaning
  • 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
    Judges 5:18 Meaning
  • 19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
    Judges 5:19 Meaning
  • 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
    Judges 5:20 Meaning
  • 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
    Judges 5:21 Meaning
  • 22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
    Judges 5:22 Meaning
  • 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
    Judges 5:23 Meaning
  • 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
    Judges 5:24 Meaning
  • 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
    Judges 5:25 Meaning
  • 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
    Judges 5:26 Meaning
  • 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    Judges 5:27 Meaning
  • 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
    Judges 5:28 Meaning
  • 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
    Judges 5:29 Meaning
  • 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
    Judges 5:30 Meaning
  • 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
    Judges 5:31 Meaning

• Hannah

1 SAMUEL 2:1-10Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
    1 Samuel 2:1 Meaning
  • 2 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
    1 Samuel 2:2 Meaning
  • 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
    1 Samuel 2:3 Meaning
  • 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
    1 Samuel 2:4 Meaning
  • 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
    1 Samuel 2:5 Meaning
  • 6 The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
    1 Samuel 2:6 Meaning
  • 7 The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
    1 Samuel 2:7 Meaning
  • 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
    1 Samuel 2:8 Meaning
  • 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
    1 Samuel 2:9 Meaning
  • 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
    1 Samuel 2:10 Meaning

• Elisabeth

LUKE 1:42-45Verses in the Bible

  • 42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
    Luke 1:42 Meaning
  • 43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
    Luke 1:43 Meaning
  • 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
    Luke 1:44 Meaning
  • 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
    Luke 1:45 Meaning

• Mary

LUKE 1:46-55Verses in the Bible

  • 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
    Luke 1:46 Meaning
  • 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
    Luke 1:47 Meaning
  • 48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
    Luke 1:48 Meaning
  • 49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
    Luke 1:49 Meaning
  • 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
    Luke 1:50 Meaning
  • 51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
    Luke 1:51 Meaning
  • 52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
    Luke 1:52 Meaning
  • 53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
    Luke 1:53 Meaning
  • 54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
    Luke 1:54 Meaning
  • 55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
    Luke 1:55 Meaning

As prophets

• Miriam

EXODUS 15:20,21Verses in the Bible

  • 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
    Exodus 15:20 Meaning
  • 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
    Exodus 15:21 Meaning

MICAH 6:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

• Deborah

JUDGES 4:4,5Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
    Judges 4:4 Meaning
  • 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
    Judges 4:5 Meaning

• Huldah

2 KINGS 22:14-20Verses in the Bible

  • 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
    2 Kings 22:14 Meaning
  • 15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
    2 Kings 22:15 Meaning
  • 16 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
    2 Kings 22:16 Meaning
  • 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
    2 Kings 22:17 Meaning
  • 18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
    2 Kings 22:18 Meaning
  • 19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
    2 Kings 22:19 Meaning
  • 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
    2 Kings 22:20 Meaning

2 CHRONICLES 34:22-28Verses in the Bible

  • 22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
    2 Chronicles 34:22 Meaning
  • 23 And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
    2 Chronicles 34:23 Meaning
  • 24 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
    2 Chronicles 34:24 Meaning
  • 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
    2 Chronicles 34:25 Meaning
  • 26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
    2 Chronicles 34:26 Meaning
  • 27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord.
    2 Chronicles 34:27 Meaning
  • 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
    2 Chronicles 34:28 Meaning

• Noadiah

NEHEMIAH 6:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

• Anna

LUKE 2:36-38Verses in the Bible

  • 36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
    Luke 2:36 Meaning
  • 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
    Luke 2:37 Meaning
  • 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
    Luke 2:38 Meaning

• Philip's Four Unmarried Daughters

ACTS 21:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

False Prophets

EZEKIEL 13:17-23Verses in the Bible

  • 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
    Ezekiel 13:17 Meaning
  • 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
    Ezekiel 13:18 Meaning
  • 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
    Ezekiel 13:19 Meaning
  • 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
    Ezekiel 13:20 Meaning
  • 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 13:21 Meaning
  • 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
    Ezekiel 13:22 Meaning
  • 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 13:23 Meaning

In Business

PROVERBS 31:14-18,24Verses in the Bible

Property rights of Women

• In Inheritance

NUMBERS 27:1-11Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
    Numbers 27:1 Meaning
  • 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
    Numbers 27:2 Meaning
  • 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
    Numbers 27:3 Meaning
  • 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
    Numbers 27:4 Meaning
  • 5 And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.
    Numbers 27:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
    Numbers 27:6 Meaning
  • 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
    Numbers 27:7 Meaning
  • 8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
    Numbers 27:8 Meaning
  • 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
    Numbers 27:9 Meaning
  • 10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
    Numbers 27:10 Meaning
  • 11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the Lord commanded Moses.
    Numbers 27:11 Meaning

NUMBERS 36Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:
    Numbers 36:1 Meaning
  • 2 And they said, The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
    Numbers 36:2 Meaning
  • 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
    Numbers 36:3 Meaning
  • 4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
    Numbers 36:4 Meaning
  • 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
    Numbers 36:5 Meaning
  • 6 This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
    Numbers 36:6 Meaning
  • 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
    Numbers 36:7 Meaning
  • 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
    Numbers 36:8 Meaning
  • 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
    Numbers 36:9 Meaning
  • 10 Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
    Numbers 36:10 Meaning
  • 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:
    Numbers 36:11 Meaning
  • 12 And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
    Numbers 36:12 Meaning
  • 13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
    Numbers 36:13 Meaning

JOSHUA 17:3-6Verses in the Bible

  • 3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
    Joshua 17:3 Meaning
  • 4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
    Joshua 17:4 Meaning
  • 5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
    Joshua 17:5 Meaning
  • 6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
    Joshua 17:6 Meaning

JOB 42:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

• To Sell Real Estate

RUTH 4:3-9Verses in the Bible

  • 3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
    Ruth 4:3 Meaning
  • 4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
    Ruth 4:4 Meaning
  • 5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
    Ruth 4:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
    Ruth 4:6 Meaning
  • 7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
    Ruth 4:7 Meaning
  • 8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
    Ruth 4:8 Meaning
  • 9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
    Ruth 4:9 Meaning

Sold for Husband's Debts

MATTHEW 18:25In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

First to Sin

GENESIS 3:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Last at the Cross

MATTHEW 27:55,56Verses in the Bible

  • 55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
    Matthew 27:55 Meaning
  • 56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
    Matthew 27:56 Meaning

MARK 15:40,41Verses in the Bible

  • 40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
    Mark 15:40 Meaning
  • 41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
    Mark 15:41 Meaning

First at the Gravesite

MARK 15:46,47Verses in the Bible

  • 46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
    Mark 15:46 Meaning
  • 47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
    Mark 15:47 Meaning

MARK 16:1-6Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
    Mark 16:1 Meaning
  • 2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
    Mark 16:2 Meaning
  • 3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
    Mark 16:3 Meaning
  • 4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
    Mark 16:4 Meaning
  • 5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
    Mark 16:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
    Mark 16:6 Meaning

LUKE 23:27,28,49,55,56Verses in the Bible

  • 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
    Luke 23:27 Meaning
  • 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
    Luke 23:28 Meaning
  • 49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
    Luke 23:49 Meaning
  • 55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
    Luke 23:55 Meaning
  • 56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
    Luke 23:56 Meaning

LUKE 24:1-10Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
    Luke 24:1 Meaning
  • 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
    Luke 24:2 Meaning
  • 3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
    Luke 24:3 Meaning
  • 4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
    Luke 24:4 Meaning
  • 5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
    Luke 24:5 Meaning
  • 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
    Luke 24:6 Meaning
  • 7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
    Luke 24:7 Meaning
  • 8 And they remembered his words,
    Luke 24:8 Meaning
  • 9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
    Luke 24:9 Meaning
  • 10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
    Luke 24:10 Meaning

First to Whom the Risen Lord Appeared

MARK 16:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

JOHN 20:14-18Verses in the Bible

  • 14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
    John 20:14 Meaning
  • 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
    John 20:15 Meaning
  • 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
    John 20:16 Meaning
  • 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
    John 20:17 Meaning
  • 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
    John 20:18 Meaning

Converted by Preaching of Paul

ACTS 16:14,15Verses in the Bible

  • 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
    Acts 16:14 Meaning
  • 15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
    Acts 16:15 Meaning

ACTS 17:4,12,34Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
    Acts 17:4 Meaning
  • 12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
    Acts 17:12 Meaning
  • 34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
    Acts 17:34 Meaning

Social status of Women

• In Persia

ESTHER 1:10-22Verses in the Bible

  • 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
    Esther 1:10 Meaning
  • 11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
    Esther 1:11 Meaning
  • 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
    Esther 1:12 Meaning
  • 13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
    Esther 1:13 Meaning
  • 14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
    Esther 1:14 Meaning
  • 15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
    Esther 1:15 Meaning
  • 16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
    Esther 1:16 Meaning
  • 17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
    Esther 1:17 Meaning
  • 18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
    Esther 1:18 Meaning
  • 19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
    Esther 1:19 Meaning
  • 20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
    Esther 1:20 Meaning
  • 21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
    Esther 1:21 Meaning
  • 22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
    Esther 1:22 Meaning

DANIEL 5:1-12Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
    Daniel 5:1 Meaning
  • 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
    Daniel 5:2 Meaning
  • 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
    Daniel 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
    Daniel 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
    Daniel 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
    Daniel 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
    Daniel 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
    Daniel 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
    Daniel 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
    Daniel 5:10 Meaning
  • 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
    Daniel 5:11 Meaning
  • 12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
    Daniel 5:12 Meaning

• In Roman Customs

ACTS 24:24In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

ACTS 25:13,23Verses in the Bible

  • 13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
    Acts 25:13 Meaning
  • 23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
    Acts 25:23 Meaning

ACTS 26:30In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

Scriptures Relating to

GENESIS 2:18,21-24Verses in the Bible

  • 18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
    Genesis 2:18 Meaning
  • 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
    Genesis 2:21 Meaning
  • 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
    Genesis 2:22 Meaning
  • 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
    Genesis 2:23 Meaning
  • 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
    Genesis 2:24 Meaning

GENESIS 3:16In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

ESTHER 1:20-22Verses in the Bible

  • 20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
    Esther 1:20 Meaning
  • 21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
    Esther 1:21 Meaning
  • 22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
    Esther 1:22 Meaning

PROVERBS 11:16,22Verses in the Bible

  • 22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
    Proverbs 11:22 Meaning

PROVERBS 12:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

PROVERBS 14:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

PROVERBS 18:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

PROVERBS 19:13,14Verses in the Bible

  • 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
    Proverbs 19:13 Meaning
  • 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
    Proverbs 19:14 Meaning

PROVERBS 21:9,19Verses in the Bible

  • 9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
    Proverbs 21:9 Meaning
  • 19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
    Proverbs 21:19 Meaning

PROVERBS 25:24In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

PROVERBS 27:15,16Verses in the Bible

  • 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
    Proverbs 27:15 Meaning
  • 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
    Proverbs 27:16 Meaning

PROVERBS 30:21-23Verses in the Bible

PROVERBS 31:10-31Verses in the Bible

ECCLESIASTES 7:26-28Verses in the Bible

  • 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
    Ecclesiastes 7:26 Meaning
  • 27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
    Ecclesiastes 7:27 Meaning
  • 28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
    Ecclesiastes 7:28 Meaning

ISAIAH 3:16-24Verses in the Bible

  • 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
    Isaiah 3:16 Meaning
  • 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
    Isaiah 3:17 Meaning
  • 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
    Isaiah 3:18 Meaning
  • 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
    Isaiah 3:19 Meaning
  • 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
    Isaiah 3:20 Meaning
  • 21 The rings, and nose jewels,
    Isaiah 3:21 Meaning
  • 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
    Isaiah 3:22 Meaning
  • 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
    Isaiah 3:23 Meaning
  • 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
    Isaiah 3:24 Meaning

ISAIAH 32:9-12Verses in the Bible

  • 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
    Isaiah 32:9 Meaning
  • 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
    Isaiah 32:10 Meaning
  • 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
    Isaiah 32:11 Meaning
  • 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
    Isaiah 32:12 Meaning

EZEKIEL 13:17-23Verses in the Bible

  • 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
    Ezekiel 13:17 Meaning
  • 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
    Ezekiel 13:18 Meaning
  • 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
    Ezekiel 13:19 Meaning
  • 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
    Ezekiel 13:20 Meaning
  • 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 13:21 Meaning
  • 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
    Ezekiel 13:22 Meaning
  • 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 13:23 Meaning

1 CORINTHIANS 11:3-15Verses in the Bible

1 CORINTHIANS 14:34,35Verses in the Bible

  • 34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
    1 Corinthians 14:34 Meaning
  • 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
    1 Corinthians 14:35 Meaning

1 TIMOTHY 2:9-15Verses in the Bible

  • 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
    1 Timothy 2:9 Meaning
  • 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
    1 Timothy 2:10 Meaning
  • 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
    1 Timothy 2:11 Meaning
  • 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
    1 Timothy 2:12 Meaning
  • 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
    1 Timothy 2:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
    1 Timothy 2:14 Meaning
  • 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
    1 Timothy 2:15 Meaning

1 TIMOTHY 3:11In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

1 TIMOTHY 5:1-16Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
    1 Timothy 5:1 Meaning
  • 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
    1 Timothy 5:2 Meaning
  • 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
    1 Timothy 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
    1 Timothy 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
    1 Timothy 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
    1 Timothy 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
    1 Timothy 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
    1 Timothy 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
    1 Timothy 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
    1 Timothy 5:10 Meaning
  • 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
    1 Timothy 5:11 Meaning
  • 12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
    1 Timothy 5:12 Meaning
  • 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
    1 Timothy 5:13 Meaning
  • 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
    1 Timothy 5:14 Meaning
  • 15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
    1 Timothy 5:15 Meaning
  • 16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
    1 Timothy 5:16 Meaning

2 TIMOTHY 3:6,7Verses in the Bible

  • 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
    2 Timothy 3:6 Meaning
  • 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
    2 Timothy 3:7 Meaning

TITUS 2:3-5Verses in the Bible

  • 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
    Titus 2:3 Meaning
  • 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
    Titus 2:4 Meaning
  • 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
    Titus 2:5 Meaning

• See Widow

• See Wife

• See Parents

Good

Instances of Women

• Deborah, a Judge, Prophetess, and Military Leader

JUDGES 4Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
    Judges 4:1 Meaning
  • 2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
    Judges 4:2 Meaning
  • 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
    Judges 4:3 Meaning
  • 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
    Judges 4:4 Meaning
  • 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
    Judges 4:5 Meaning
  • 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
    Judges 4:6 Meaning
  • 7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
    Judges 4:7 Meaning
  • 8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
    Judges 4:8 Meaning
  • 9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
    Judges 4:9 Meaning
  • 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
    Judges 4:10 Meaning
  • 11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
    Judges 4:11 Meaning
  • 12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
    Judges 4:12 Meaning
  • 13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
    Judges 4:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
    Judges 4:14 Meaning
  • 15 And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
    Judges 4:15 Meaning
  • 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
    Judges 4:16 Meaning
  • 17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
    Judges 4:17 Meaning
  • 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
    Judges 4:18 Meaning
  • 19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
    Judges 4:19 Meaning
  • 20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
    Judges 4:20 Meaning
  • 21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
    Judges 4:21 Meaning
  • 22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
    Judges 4:22 Meaning
  • 23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
    Judges 4:23 Meaning
  • 24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
    Judges 4:24 Meaning

JUDGES 5Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
    Judges 5:1 Meaning
  • 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
    Judges 5:2 Meaning
  • 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
    Judges 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
    Judges 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
    Judges 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
    Judges 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
    Judges 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
    Judges 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.
    Judges 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
    Judges 5:10 Meaning
  • 11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
    Judges 5:11 Meaning
  • 12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
    Judges 5:12 Meaning
  • 13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
    Judges 5:13 Meaning
  • 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
    Judges 5:14 Meaning
  • 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
    Judges 5:15 Meaning
  • 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
    Judges 5:16 Meaning
  • 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
    Judges 5:17 Meaning
  • 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
    Judges 5:18 Meaning
  • 19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
    Judges 5:19 Meaning
  • 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
    Judges 5:20 Meaning
  • 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
    Judges 5:21 Meaning
  • 22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
    Judges 5:22 Meaning
  • 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
    Judges 5:23 Meaning
  • 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
    Judges 5:24 Meaning
  • 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
    Judges 5:25 Meaning
  • 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
    Judges 5:26 Meaning
  • 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    Judges 5:27 Meaning
  • 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
    Judges 5:28 Meaning
  • 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
    Judges 5:29 Meaning
  • 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
    Judges 5:30 Meaning
  • 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
    Judges 5:31 Meaning

• Mother of Samson

JUDGES 13:23In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 23 But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

• Naomi

RUTH 1Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
    Ruth 1:1 Meaning
  • 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
    Ruth 1:2 Meaning
  • 3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
    Ruth 1:3 Meaning
  • 4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
    Ruth 1:4 Meaning
  • 5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
    Ruth 1:5 Meaning
  • 6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
    Ruth 1:6 Meaning
  • 7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
    Ruth 1:7 Meaning
  • 8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
    Ruth 1:8 Meaning
  • 9 The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
    Ruth 1:9 Meaning
  • 10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
    Ruth 1:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
    Ruth 1:11 Meaning
  • 12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
    Ruth 1:12 Meaning
  • 13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
    Ruth 1:13 Meaning
  • 14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
    Ruth 1:14 Meaning
  • 15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
    Ruth 1:15 Meaning
  • 16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
    Ruth 1:16 Meaning
  • 17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
    Ruth 1:17 Meaning
  • 18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
    Ruth 1:18 Meaning
  • 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
    Ruth 1:19 Meaning
  • 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
    Ruth 1:20 Meaning
  • 21 I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
    Ruth 1:21 Meaning
  • 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
    Ruth 1:22 Meaning

RUTH 2Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
    Ruth 2:1 Meaning
  • 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
    Ruth 2:2 Meaning
  • 3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
    Ruth 2:3 Meaning
  • 4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee.
    Ruth 2:4 Meaning
  • 5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
    Ruth 2:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
    Ruth 2:6 Meaning
  • 7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
    Ruth 2:7 Meaning
  • 8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
    Ruth 2:8 Meaning
  • 9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
    Ruth 2:9 Meaning
  • 10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
    Ruth 2:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
    Ruth 2:11 Meaning
  • 12 The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
    Ruth 2:12 Meaning
  • 13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
    Ruth 2:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
    Ruth 2:14 Meaning
  • 15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
    Ruth 2:15 Meaning
  • 16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
    Ruth 2:16 Meaning
  • 17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
    Ruth 2:17 Meaning
  • 18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
    Ruth 2:18 Meaning
  • 19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
    Ruth 2:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
    Ruth 2:20 Meaning
  • 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
    Ruth 2:21 Meaning
  • 22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
    Ruth 2:22 Meaning
  • 23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
    Ruth 2:23 Meaning

RUTH 3:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

• Ruth

RUTH 1:4,14-22Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
    Ruth 1:4 Meaning
  • 14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
    Ruth 1:14 Meaning
  • 15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
    Ruth 1:15 Meaning
  • 16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
    Ruth 1:16 Meaning
  • 17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
    Ruth 1:17 Meaning
  • 18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
    Ruth 1:18 Meaning
  • 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
    Ruth 1:19 Meaning
  • 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
    Ruth 1:20 Meaning
  • 21 I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
    Ruth 1:21 Meaning
  • 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
    Ruth 1:22 Meaning

• And

RUTH 2Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
    Ruth 2:1 Meaning
  • 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
    Ruth 2:2 Meaning
  • 3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
    Ruth 2:3 Meaning
  • 4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee.
    Ruth 2:4 Meaning
  • 5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
    Ruth 2:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
    Ruth 2:6 Meaning
  • 7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
    Ruth 2:7 Meaning
  • 8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
    Ruth 2:8 Meaning
  • 9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
    Ruth 2:9 Meaning
  • 10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
    Ruth 2:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
    Ruth 2:11 Meaning
  • 12 The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
    Ruth 2:12 Meaning
  • 13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
    Ruth 2:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
    Ruth 2:14 Meaning
  • 15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
    Ruth 2:15 Meaning
  • 16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
    Ruth 2:16 Meaning
  • 17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
    Ruth 2:17 Meaning
  • 18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
    Ruth 2:18 Meaning
  • 19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
    Ruth 2:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
    Ruth 2:20 Meaning
  • 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
    Ruth 2:21 Meaning
  • 22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
    Ruth 2:22 Meaning
  • 23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
    Ruth 2:23 Meaning

RUTH 3Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
    Ruth 3:1 Meaning
  • 2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
    Ruth 3:2 Meaning
  • 3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
    Ruth 3:3 Meaning
  • 4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
    Ruth 3:4 Meaning
  • 5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
    Ruth 3:5 Meaning
  • 6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
    Ruth 3:6 Meaning
  • 7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
    Ruth 3:7 Meaning
  • 8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
    Ruth 3:8 Meaning
  • 9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.
    Ruth 3:9 Meaning
  • 10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
    Ruth 3:10 Meaning
  • 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.
    Ruth 3:11 Meaning
  • 12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
    Ruth 3:12 Meaning
  • 13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.
    Ruth 3:13 Meaning
  • 14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
    Ruth 3:14 Meaning
  • 15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
    Ruth 3:15 Meaning
  • 16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
    Ruth 3:16 Meaning
  • 17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
    Ruth 3:17 Meaning
  • 18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
    Ruth 3:18 Meaning

RUTH 4Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
    Ruth 4:1 Meaning
  • 2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
    Ruth 4:2 Meaning
  • 3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
    Ruth 4:3 Meaning
  • 4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
    Ruth 4:4 Meaning
  • 5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
    Ruth 4:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
    Ruth 4:6 Meaning
  • 7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
    Ruth 4:7 Meaning
  • 8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
    Ruth 4:8 Meaning
  • 9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
    Ruth 4:9 Meaning
  • 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
    Ruth 4:10 Meaning
  • 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
    Ruth 4:11 Meaning
  • 12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.
    Ruth 4:12 Meaning
  • 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son.
    Ruth 4:13 Meaning
  • 14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
    Ruth 4:14 Meaning
  • 15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
    Ruth 4:15 Meaning
  • 16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
    Ruth 4:16 Meaning
  • 17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
    Ruth 4:17 Meaning
  • 18 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
    Ruth 4:18 Meaning
  • 19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
    Ruth 4:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
    Ruth 4:20 Meaning
  • 21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
    Ruth 4:21 Meaning
  • 22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
    Ruth 4:22 Meaning

• Hannah, the Mother of Samuel

1 SAMUEL 1:9-18,24-28Verses in the Bible

  • 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
    1 Samuel 1:9 Meaning
  • 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
    1 Samuel 1:10 Meaning
  • 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
    1 Samuel 1:11 Meaning
  • 12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth.
    1 Samuel 1:12 Meaning
  • 13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
    1 Samuel 1:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
    1 Samuel 1:14 Meaning
  • 15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
    1 Samuel 1:15 Meaning
  • 16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
    1 Samuel 1:16 Meaning
  • 17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
    1 Samuel 1:17 Meaning
  • 18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
    1 Samuel 1:18 Meaning
  • 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh: and the child was young.
    1 Samuel 1:24 Meaning
  • 25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
    1 Samuel 1:25 Meaning
  • 26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord.
    1 Samuel 1:26 Meaning
  • 27 For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
    1 Samuel 1:27 Meaning
  • 28 Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there.
    1 Samuel 1:28 Meaning

• Widow of Zarephath, Who Fed Elijah During the Famine

1 KINGS 17:8-24Verses in the Bible

  • 8 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
    1 Kings 17:8 Meaning
  • 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
    1 Kings 17:9 Meaning
  • 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
    1 Kings 17:10 Meaning
  • 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
    1 Kings 17:11 Meaning
  • 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
    1 Kings 17:12 Meaning
  • 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
    1 Kings 17:13 Meaning
  • 14 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
    1 Kings 17:14 Meaning
  • 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
    1 Kings 17:15 Meaning
  • 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
    1 Kings 17:16 Meaning
  • 17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
    1 Kings 17:17 Meaning
  • 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
    1 Kings 17:18 Meaning
  • 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
    1 Kings 17:19 Meaning
  • 20 And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
    1 Kings 17:20 Meaning
  • 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
    1 Kings 17:21 Meaning
  • 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
    1 Kings 17:22 Meaning
  • 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
    1 Kings 17:23 Meaning
  • 24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.
    1 Kings 17:24 Meaning

• The Shunammite Woman, Who Gave Hospitality to Elisha

2 KINGS 4:8-38Verses in the Bible

  • 8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
    2 Kings 4:8 Meaning
  • 9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
    2 Kings 4:9 Meaning
  • 10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
    2 Kings 4:10 Meaning
  • 11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
    2 Kings 4:11 Meaning
  • 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
    2 Kings 4:12 Meaning
  • 13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
    2 Kings 4:13 Meaning
  • 14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
    2 Kings 4:14 Meaning
  • 15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
    2 Kings 4:15 Meaning
  • 16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
    2 Kings 4:16 Meaning
  • 17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
    2 Kings 4:17 Meaning
  • 18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
    2 Kings 4:18 Meaning
  • 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
    2 Kings 4:19 Meaning
  • 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
    2 Kings 4:20 Meaning
  • 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
    2 Kings 4:21 Meaning
  • 22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
    2 Kings 4:22 Meaning
  • 23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
    2 Kings 4:23 Meaning
  • 24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
    2 Kings 4:24 Meaning
  • 25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
    2 Kings 4:25 Meaning
  • 26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
    2 Kings 4:26 Meaning
  • 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
    2 Kings 4:27 Meaning
  • 28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
    2 Kings 4:28 Meaning
  • 29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
    2 Kings 4:29 Meaning
  • 30 And the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
    2 Kings 4:30 Meaning
  • 31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
    2 Kings 4:31 Meaning
  • 32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
    2 Kings 4:32 Meaning
  • 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord.
    2 Kings 4:33 Meaning
  • 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
    2 Kings 4:34 Meaning
  • 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
    2 Kings 4:35 Meaning
  • 36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
    2 Kings 4:36 Meaning
  • 37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
    2 Kings 4:37 Meaning
  • 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
    2 Kings 4:38 Meaning

• Vashti

ESTHER 1:11,12Verses in the Bible

  • 11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
    Esther 1:11 Meaning
  • 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
    Esther 1:12 Meaning

• Esther

ESTHER 4:15-17Verses in the Bible

  • 15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
    Esther 4:15 Meaning
  • 16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
    Esther 4:16 Meaning
  • 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
    Esther 4:17 Meaning

• Mary

LUKE 1:26-38Verses in the Bible

  • 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
    Luke 1:26 Meaning
  • 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
    Luke 1:27 Meaning
  • 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
    Luke 1:28 Meaning
  • 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
    Luke 1:29 Meaning
  • 30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
    Luke 1:30 Meaning
  • 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
    Luke 1:31 Meaning
  • 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
    Luke 1:32 Meaning
  • 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
    Luke 1:33 Meaning
  • 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
    Luke 1:34 Meaning
  • 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
    Luke 1:35 Meaning
  • 36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
    Luke 1:36 Meaning
  • 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
    Luke 1:37 Meaning
  • 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
    Luke 1:38 Meaning

• Elisabeth

LUKE 1:6,41-45Verses in the Bible

  • 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
    Luke 1:6 Meaning
  • 41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
    Luke 1:41 Meaning
  • 42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
    Luke 1:42 Meaning
  • 43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
    Luke 1:43 Meaning
  • 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
    Luke 1:44 Meaning
  • 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
    Luke 1:45 Meaning

• Anna

LUKE 2:37In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

• The Widow Who Put Her Two Mite (Small Coins, Greek: Leptas) Into the Treasury

MARK 12:41-44Verses in the Bible

  • 41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
    Mark 12:41 Meaning
  • 42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
    Mark 12:42 Meaning
  • 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
    Mark 12:43 Meaning
  • 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
    Mark 12:44 Meaning

LUKE 21:2-4Verses in the Bible

  • 2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
    Luke 21:2 Meaning
  • 3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
    Luke 21:3 Meaning
  • 4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
    Luke 21:4 Meaning

• Mary and Martha

MARK 14:3-9Verses in the Bible

  • 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
    Mark 14:3 Meaning
  • 4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
    Mark 14:4 Meaning
  • 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
    Mark 14:5 Meaning
  • 6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
    Mark 14:6 Meaning
  • 7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
    Mark 14:7 Meaning
  • 8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
    Mark 14:8 Meaning
  • 9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
    Mark 14:9 Meaning

LUKE 10:42In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

JOHN 11:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

• Mary Magdalene

MARK 16:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

LUKE 8:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,

JOHN 20:1,2,11-16Verses in the Bible

  • 1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
    John 20:1 Meaning
  • 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
    John 20:2 Meaning
  • 11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
    John 20:11 Meaning
  • 12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
    John 20:12 Meaning
  • 13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
    John 20:13 Meaning
  • 14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
    John 20:14 Meaning
  • 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
    John 20:15 Meaning
  • 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
    John 20:16 Meaning

• Pilate's Wife

MATTHEW 27:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

• Dorcas (Tabitha)

ACTS 9:36In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

• Lydia

ACTS 16:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

• Priscilla (Prisca)

ACTS 18:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

• Phoebe

ROMANS 16:1,2Verses in the Bible

  • 1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
    Romans 16:1 Meaning
  • 2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
    Romans 16:2 Meaning

• Julia

ROMANS 16:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

• Mary

ROMANS 16:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.

• Lois and Eunice

2 TIMOTHY 1:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

• The Philippian Christians

PHILIPPIANS 4:3In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Figurative

• Of the Body (Ekklesia) of Christ

PSALM 45:2-15Verses in the Bible

  • 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
    Psalm 45:2 Meaning
  • 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
    Psalm 45:3 Meaning
  • 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
    Psalm 45:4 Meaning
  • 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
    Psalm 45:5 Meaning
  • 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
    Psalm 45:6 Meaning
  • 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
    Psalm 45:7 Meaning
  • 8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
    Psalm 45:8 Meaning
  • 9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
    Psalm 45:9 Meaning
  • 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
    Psalm 45:10 Meaning
  • 11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
    Psalm 45:11 Meaning
  • 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
    Psalm 45:12 Meaning
  • 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
    Psalm 45:13 Meaning
  • 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
    Psalm 45:14 Meaning
  • 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
    Psalm 45:15 Meaning

GALATIANS 4:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

REVELATION 12:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

• Of Saints

MATTHEW 25:1-4Verses in the Bible

2 CORINTHIANS 11:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

REVELATION 14:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Wicked

2 KINGS 9:30-37Verses in the Bible

  • 30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
    2 Kings 9:30 Meaning
  • 31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
    2 Kings 9:31 Meaning
  • 32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
    2 Kings 9:32 Meaning
  • 33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
    2 Kings 9:33 Meaning
  • 34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
    2 Kings 9:34 Meaning
  • 35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
    2 Kings 9:35 Meaning
  • 36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
    2 Kings 9:36 Meaning
  • 37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
    2 Kings 9:37 Meaning

2 KINGS 23:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

JEREMIAH 44:15-19,25Verses in the Bible

  • 15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
    Jeremiah 44:15 Meaning
  • 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
    Jeremiah 44:16 Meaning
  • 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
    Jeremiah 44:17 Meaning
  • 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
    Jeremiah 44:18 Meaning
  • 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
    Jeremiah 44:19 Meaning
  • 25 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
    Jeremiah 44:25 Meaning

EZEKIEL 8:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

ROMANS 1:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

• Zeal Of, in Licentious Practices of Idolatry

2 KINGS 23:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

HOSEA 4:13,14Verses in the Bible

  • 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
    Hosea 4:13 Meaning
  • 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
    Hosea 4:14 Meaning

• Full of Deceit and Licentiousness

PROVERBS 2:16-19Verses in the Bible

  • 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
    Proverbs 2:16 Meaning
  • 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
    Proverbs 2:17 Meaning
  • 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
    Proverbs 2:18 Meaning
  • 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
    Proverbs 2:19 Meaning

PROVERBS 5:3-20Verses in the Bible

  • 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
    Proverbs 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
    Proverbs 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
    Proverbs 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
    Proverbs 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
    Proverbs 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
    Proverbs 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
    Proverbs 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
    Proverbs 5:10 Meaning
  • 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
    Proverbs 5:11 Meaning
  • 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
    Proverbs 5:12 Meaning
  • 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
    Proverbs 5:13 Meaning
  • 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
    Proverbs 5:14 Meaning
  • 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
    Proverbs 5:15 Meaning
  • 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
    Proverbs 5:16 Meaning
  • 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
    Proverbs 5:17 Meaning
  • 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
    Proverbs 5:18 Meaning
  • 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
    Proverbs 5:19 Meaning
  • 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
    Proverbs 5:20 Meaning

PROVERBS 6:24-29,32-35Verses in the Bible

  • 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
    Proverbs 6:24 Meaning
  • 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
    Proverbs 6:25 Meaning
  • 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
    Proverbs 6:26 Meaning
  • 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
    Proverbs 6:27 Meaning
  • 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
    Proverbs 6:28 Meaning
  • 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
    Proverbs 6:29 Meaning
  • 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
    Proverbs 6:32 Meaning
  • 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
    Proverbs 6:33 Meaning
  • 34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
    Proverbs 6:34 Meaning
  • 35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
    Proverbs 6:35 Meaning

PROVERBS 7:6-27Verses in the Bible

  • 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
    Proverbs 7:6 Meaning
  • 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
    Proverbs 7:7 Meaning
  • 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
    Proverbs 7:8 Meaning
  • 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
    Proverbs 7:9 Meaning
  • 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
    Proverbs 7:10 Meaning
  • 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
    Proverbs 7:11 Meaning
  • 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
    Proverbs 7:12 Meaning
  • 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
    Proverbs 7:13 Meaning
  • 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
    Proverbs 7:14 Meaning
  • 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
    Proverbs 7:15 Meaning
  • 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
    Proverbs 7:16 Meaning
  • 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
    Proverbs 7:17 Meaning
  • 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
    Proverbs 7:18 Meaning
  • 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
    Proverbs 7:19 Meaning
  • 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
    Proverbs 7:20 Meaning
  • 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
    Proverbs 7:21 Meaning
  • 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
    Proverbs 7:22 Meaning
  • 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
    Proverbs 7:23 Meaning
  • 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
    Proverbs 7:24 Meaning
  • 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
    Proverbs 7:25 Meaning
  • 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
    Proverbs 7:26 Meaning
  • 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
    Proverbs 7:27 Meaning

ECCLESIASTES 7:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

EZEKIEL 16:32In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

• Commits Forgery

1 KINGS 21:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

• Silly and Wayward

2 TIMOTHY 3:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

Instances of Women

• Eve, in Yielding to Temptation and Seducing Her Husband

GENESIS 3:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

1 TIMOTHY 2:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

• Sarah, in Her Jealousy and Malice Toward Hagar

GENESIS 21:9-11Verses in the Bible

  • 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
    Genesis 21:9 Meaning
  • 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
    Genesis 21:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
    Genesis 21:11 Meaning

GENESIS 21:12-21Verses in the Bible

  • 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
    Genesis 21:12 Meaning
  • 13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
    Genesis 21:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
    Genesis 21:14 Meaning
  • 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
    Genesis 21:15 Meaning
  • 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
    Genesis 21:16 Meaning
  • 17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
    Genesis 21:17 Meaning
  • 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
    Genesis 21:18 Meaning
  • 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
    Genesis 21:19 Meaning
  • 20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
    Genesis 21:20 Meaning
  • 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
    Genesis 21:21 Meaning

• Lot's Wife, in Her Rebellion Against Her Situation, and Against the Destruction of Sodom

GENESIS 19:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

LUKE 17:32In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 32 Remember Lot's wife.

• The Daughters of Lot, in Their Incestuous Lust

GENESIS 19:31-38Verses in the Bible

  • 31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
    Genesis 19:31 Meaning
  • 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
    Genesis 19:32 Meaning
  • 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
    Genesis 19:33 Meaning
  • 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
    Genesis 19:34 Meaning
  • 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
    Genesis 19:35 Meaning
  • 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
    Genesis 19:36 Meaning
  • 37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
    Genesis 19:37 Meaning
  • 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
    Genesis 19:38 Meaning

• Rebekah, in Her Partiality for Jacob, and Her Sharp Practice to Secure for Him Isaac's Blessing

GENESIS 27:11-17Verses in the Bible

  • 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
    Genesis 27:11 Meaning
  • 12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
    Genesis 27:12 Meaning
  • 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
    Genesis 27:13 Meaning
  • 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
    Genesis 27:14 Meaning
  • 15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
    Genesis 27:15 Meaning
  • 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
    Genesis 27:16 Meaning
  • 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
    Genesis 27:17 Meaning

• Rachel, in Her Jealousy of Leah

GENESIS 30:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

• Rachel, in Stealing Images

GENESIS 31:19,34Verses in the Bible

  • 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
    Genesis 31:19 Meaning
  • 34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
    Genesis 31:34 Meaning

• Leah, in Her Imitation of Rachel in the Matter of Children

GENESIS 30:9-18Verses in the Bible

  • 9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
    Genesis 30:9 Meaning
  • 10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
    Genesis 30:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
    Genesis 30:11 Meaning
  • 12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
    Genesis 30:12 Meaning
  • 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
    Genesis 30:13 Meaning
  • 14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
    Genesis 30:14 Meaning
  • 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
    Genesis 30:15 Meaning
  • 16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
    Genesis 30:16 Meaning
  • 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
    Genesis 30:17 Meaning
  • 18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
    Genesis 30:18 Meaning

• Dinah, in Her Fornication

GENESIS 34:1,2Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
    Genesis 34:1 Meaning
  • 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
    Genesis 34:2 Meaning

• Tamar, in Her Adultery

GENESIS 38:14-24Verses in the Bible

  • 14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
    Genesis 38:14 Meaning
  • 15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
    Genesis 38:15 Meaning
  • 16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
    Genesis 38:16 Meaning
  • 17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
    Genesis 38:17 Meaning
  • 18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
    Genesis 38:18 Meaning
  • 19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
    Genesis 38:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
    Genesis 38:20 Meaning
  • 21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
    Genesis 38:21 Meaning
  • 22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
    Genesis 38:22 Meaning
  • 23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
    Genesis 38:23 Meaning
  • 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
    Genesis 38:24 Meaning

• Potiphar's Wife, in Her Lascivious Lust and Slander Against Joseph

GENESIS 39:7-20Verses in the Bible

  • 7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
    Genesis 39:7 Meaning
  • 8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
    Genesis 39:8 Meaning
  • 9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
    Genesis 39:9 Meaning
  • 10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
    Genesis 39:10 Meaning
  • 11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
    Genesis 39:11 Meaning
  • 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
    Genesis 39:12 Meaning
  • 13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
    Genesis 39:13 Meaning
  • 14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
    Genesis 39:14 Meaning
  • 15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
    Genesis 39:15 Meaning
  • 16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
    Genesis 39:16 Meaning
  • 17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
    Genesis 39:17 Meaning
  • 18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
    Genesis 39:18 Meaning
  • 19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
    Genesis 39:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
    Genesis 39:20 Meaning

• Zipporah, in Her Persecution of Moses on Account of His Religious Obligations

EXODUS 4:25,26Verses in the Bible

  • 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
    Exodus 4:25 Meaning
  • 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
    Exodus 4:26 Meaning

• Miriam, in Her Sedition With Aaron Against Moses

NUMBERS 12Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
    Numbers 12:1 Meaning
  • 2 And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.
    Numbers 12:2 Meaning
  • 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
    Numbers 12:3 Meaning
  • 4 And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
    Numbers 12:4 Meaning
  • 5 And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
    Numbers 12:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
    Numbers 12:6 Meaning
  • 7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
    Numbers 12:7 Meaning
  • 8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
    Numbers 12:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.
    Numbers 12:9 Meaning
  • 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
    Numbers 12:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
    Numbers 12:11 Meaning
  • 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
    Numbers 12:12 Meaning
  • 13 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
    Numbers 12:13 Meaning
  • 14 And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
    Numbers 12:14 Meaning
  • 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
    Numbers 12:15 Meaning
  • 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
    Numbers 12:16 Meaning

• Rahab, in Her Harlotry

JOSHUA 2:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

• Delilah, in Her Conspiracy Against Samson

JUDGES 16:4-20Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
    Judges 16:4 Meaning
  • 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
    Judges 16:5 Meaning
  • 6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
    Judges 16:6 Meaning
  • 7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
    Judges 16:7 Meaning
  • 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
    Judges 16:8 Meaning
  • 9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
    Judges 16:9 Meaning
  • 10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
    Judges 16:10 Meaning
  • 11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
    Judges 16:11 Meaning
  • 12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
    Judges 16:12 Meaning
  • 13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
    Judges 16:13 Meaning
  • 14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
    Judges 16:14 Meaning
  • 15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
    Judges 16:15 Meaning
  • 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
    Judges 16:16 Meaning
  • 17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
    Judges 16:17 Meaning
  • 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
    Judges 16:18 Meaning
  • 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
    Judges 16:19 Meaning
  • 20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.
    Judges 16:20 Meaning

• Peninnah, the Wife of Elkanah, in Her Jealous Taunting of Hannah

1 SAMUEL 1:4-8Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
    1 Samuel 1:4 Meaning
  • 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.
    1 Samuel 1:5 Meaning
  • 6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
    1 Samuel 1:6 Meaning
  • 7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
    1 Samuel 1:7 Meaning
  • 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
    1 Samuel 1:8 Meaning

• The Midianite Woman in the Camp of Israel, Taken in Adultery

NUMBERS 25:6-8Verses in the Bible

  • 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
    Numbers 25:6 Meaning
  • 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
    Numbers 25:7 Meaning
  • 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
    Numbers 25:8 Meaning

• Michal, in Her Derision of David's Religious Zeal

2 SAMUEL 6:16,20-23Verses in the Bible

  • 16 And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
    2 Samuel 6:16 Meaning
  • 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
    2 Samuel 6:20 Meaning
  • 21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.
    2 Samuel 6:21 Meaning
  • 22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
    2 Samuel 6:22 Meaning
  • 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
    2 Samuel 6:23 Meaning

• Bathsheba, in Her Adultery, in Becoming the Wife of Her Husband's Murderer

2 SAMUEL 11:4,5,27Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
    2 Samuel 11:4 Meaning
  • 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
    2 Samuel 11:27 Meaning

2 SAMUEL 12:9,10Verses in the Bible

  • 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
    2 Samuel 12:9 Meaning
  • 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
    2 Samuel 12:10 Meaning

• Solomon's Wives, in Their Idolatrous and Wicked Influence Over Solomon

1 KINGS 11:1-11Verses in the Bible

  • 1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
    1 Kings 11:1 Meaning
  • 2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
    1 Kings 11:2 Meaning
  • 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
    1 Kings 11:3 Meaning
  • 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
    1 Kings 11:4 Meaning
  • 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
    1 Kings 11:5 Meaning
  • 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
    1 Kings 11:6 Meaning
  • 7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
    1 Kings 11:7 Meaning
  • 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
    1 Kings 11:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
    1 Kings 11:9 Meaning
  • 10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
    1 Kings 11:10 Meaning
  • 11 Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
    1 Kings 11:11 Meaning

NEHEMIAH 13:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

• Jezebel, in Her Persecution and Destruction of the Prophets of the Lord

1 KINGS 18:4,13Verses in the Bible

  • 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
    1 Kings 18:4 Meaning
  • 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
    1 Kings 18:13 Meaning

• Jezebel, in Her Persecution of Elijah

1 KINGS 19:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.

• Jezebel, in Her Conspiracy Against Naboth, to Cheat Him Out of His Vineyard

1 KINGS 21:1-16Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
    1 Kings 21:1 Meaning
  • 2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
    1 Kings 21:2 Meaning
  • 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
    1 Kings 21:3 Meaning
  • 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
    1 Kings 21:4 Meaning
  • 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
    1 Kings 21:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
    1 Kings 21:6 Meaning
  • 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
    1 Kings 21:7 Meaning
  • 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
    1 Kings 21:8 Meaning
  • 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
    1 Kings 21:9 Meaning
  • 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
    1 Kings 21:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
    1 Kings 21:11 Meaning
  • 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
    1 Kings 21:12 Meaning
  • 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
    1 Kings 21:13 Meaning
  • 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
    1 Kings 21:14 Meaning
  • 15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
    1 Kings 21:15 Meaning
  • 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
    1 Kings 21:16 Meaning

• Jezebel, in Her Evil Counsels To, and Influence Over, Ahab

1 KINGS 21:25In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

1 KINGS 21:17-27Verses in the Bible

  • 17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
    1 Kings 21:17 Meaning
  • 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
    1 Kings 21:18 Meaning
  • 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
    1 Kings 21:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.
    1 Kings 21:20 Meaning
  • 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
    1 Kings 21:21 Meaning
  • 22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
    1 Kings 21:22 Meaning
  • 23 And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
    1 Kings 21:23 Meaning
  • 24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
    1 Kings 21:24 Meaning
  • 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
    1 Kings 21:25 Meaning
  • 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
    1 Kings 21:26 Meaning
  • 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
    1 Kings 21:27 Meaning

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2 KINGS 9:30-37Verses in the Bible

  • 30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
    2 Kings 9:30 Meaning
  • 31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
    2 Kings 9:31 Meaning
  • 32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
    2 Kings 9:32 Meaning
  • 33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
    2 Kings 9:33 Meaning
  • 34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
    2 Kings 9:34 Meaning
  • 35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
    2 Kings 9:35 Meaning
  • 36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
    2 Kings 9:36 Meaning
  • 37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
    2 Kings 9:37 Meaning

• The Cannibalistic Mothers of Samaria

2 KINGS 6:28,29Verses in the Bible

  • 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
    2 Kings 6:28 Meaning
  • 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
    2 Kings 6:29 Meaning

• Athaliah, in Destroying the Royal Household and Usurping the Throne

2 KINGS 11:1-16Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
    2 Kings 11:1 Meaning
  • 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
    2 Kings 11:2 Meaning
  • 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
    2 Kings 11:3 Meaning
  • 4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king's son.
    2 Kings 11:4 Meaning
  • 5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
    2 Kings 11:5 Meaning
  • 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
    2 Kings 11:6 Meaning
  • 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.
    2 Kings 11:7 Meaning
  • 8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
    2 Kings 11:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
    2 Kings 11:9 Meaning
  • 10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the Lord.
    2 Kings 11:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
    2 Kings 11:11 Meaning
  • 12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
    2 Kings 11:12 Meaning
  • 13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.
    2 Kings 11:13 Meaning
  • 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
    2 Kings 11:14 Meaning
  • 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.
    2 Kings 11:15 Meaning
  • 16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
    2 Kings 11:16 Meaning

2 CHRONICLES 22:10,12Verses in the Bible

  • 10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
    2 Chronicles 22:10 Meaning
  • 11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
    2 Chronicles 22:11 Meaning
  • 12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
    2 Chronicles 22:12 Meaning

2 CHRONICLES 23:12-15Verses in the Bible

  • 12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord:
    2 Chronicles 23:12 Meaning
  • 13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
    2 Chronicles 23:13 Meaning
  • 14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the Lord.
    2 Chronicles 23:14 Meaning
  • 15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
    2 Chronicles 23:15 Meaning

• The Sodomites of the Southern Kingdom (Judah)

2 KINGS 23:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

• Noadiah, a False Prophetess in Attempting to Intimidate the Jews When They Were Restoring Jerusalem

NEHEMIAH 6:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

• Haman's Wife, in Advising Him to Hang Mordecai

ESTHER 5:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

ESTHER 6:13In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

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JOB 2:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

JOB 19:17In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

• Gomer, the Adulterous Wife of Hosea

HOSEA 1:2,3Verses in the Bible

  • 2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
    Hosea 1:2 Meaning
  • 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
    Hosea 1:3 Meaning

HOSEA 3:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

• Herodias, in Her Incestuous Marriage With Herod Antipas

MATTHEW 14:3,4Verses in the Bible

  • 3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
    Matthew 14:3 Meaning
  • 4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
    Matthew 14:4 Meaning

MARK 6:17-19Verses in the Bible

  • 17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
    Mark 6:17 Meaning
  • 18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
    Mark 6:18 Meaning
  • 19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
    Mark 6:19 Meaning

LUKE 3:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

• Herodius, by Indirectly Causing John the Baptist to Be Decapitated

MATTHEW 14:6-11Verses in the Bible

  • 6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
    Matthew 14:6 Meaning
  • 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
    Matthew 14:7 Meaning
  • 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
    Matthew 14:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
    Matthew 14:9 Meaning
  • 10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
    Matthew 14:10 Meaning
  • 11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
    Matthew 14:11 Meaning

MARK 6:24-28Verses in the Bible

  • 24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
    Mark 6:24 Meaning
  • 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
    Mark 6:25 Meaning
  • 26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
    Mark 6:26 Meaning
  • 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
    Mark 6:27 Meaning
  • 28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
    Mark 6:28 Meaning

• The Daughter of Herodias, in Her Complicity With Her Mother in Securing the Death of John the Baptist

MATTHEW 14:8In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

MARK 6:18-28Verses in the Bible

  • 18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
    Mark 6:18 Meaning
  • 19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
    Mark 6:19 Meaning
  • 20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
    Mark 6:20 Meaning
  • 21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
    Mark 6:21 Meaning
  • 22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
    Mark 6:22 Meaning
  • 23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
    Mark 6:23 Meaning
  • 24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
    Mark 6:24 Meaning
  • 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
    Mark 6:25 Meaning
  • 26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
    Mark 6:26 Meaning
  • 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
    Mark 6:27 Meaning
  • 28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
    Mark 6:28 Meaning

• Sapphira, in Her Blasphemous Falsehood

ACTS 5:2-10Verses in the Bible

  • 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
    Acts 5:2 Meaning
  • 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
    Acts 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
    Acts 5:4 Meaning
  • 5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
    Acts 5:5 Meaning
  • 6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
    Acts 5:6 Meaning
  • 7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
    Acts 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
    Acts 5:8 Meaning
  • 9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
    Acts 5:9 Meaning
  • 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
    Acts 5:10 Meaning

• The Woman Caught in the Act of Adultery and Brought to Jesus in the Temple

JOHN 8:1-11Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
    John 8:1 Meaning
  • 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
    John 8:2 Meaning
  • 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
    John 8:3 Meaning
  • 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
    John 8:4 Meaning
  • 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
    John 8:5 Meaning
  • 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
    John 8:6 Meaning
  • 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
    John 8:7 Meaning
  • 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
    John 8:8 Meaning
  • 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
    John 8:9 Meaning
  • 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
    John 8:10 Meaning
  • 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
    John 8:11 Meaning

Figurative

• Of Backsliding

JEREMIAH 6:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

REVELATION 17:4,18Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
    Revelation 17:4 Meaning
  • 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
    Revelation 17:18 Meaning

• Of Evil People

ISAIAH 32:9,11Verses in the Bible

  • 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
    Isaiah 32:9 Meaning
  • 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
    Isaiah 32:10 Meaning
  • 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
    Isaiah 32:11 Meaning

MATTHEW 25:1-13Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
    Matthew 25:1 Meaning
  • 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
    Matthew 25:2 Meaning
  • 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
    Matthew 25:3 Meaning
  • 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
    Matthew 25:4 Meaning
  • 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
    Matthew 25:5 Meaning
  • 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
    Matthew 25:6 Meaning
  • 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
    Matthew 25:7 Meaning
  • 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
    Matthew 25:8 Meaning
  • 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
    Matthew 25:9 Meaning
  • 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
    Matthew 25:10 Meaning
  • 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
    Matthew 25:11 Meaning
  • 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
    Matthew 25:12 Meaning
  • 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
    Matthew 25:13 Meaning

Symbolical

• Of Wickedness

ZECHARIAH 5:7,8Verses in the Bible

  • 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
    Zechariah 5:7 Meaning
  • 8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
    Zechariah 5:8 Meaning

REVELATION 17Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
    Revelation 17:1 Meaning
  • 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
    Revelation 17:2 Meaning
  • 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
    Revelation 17:3 Meaning
  • 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
    Revelation 17:4 Meaning
  • 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
    Revelation 17:5 Meaning
  • 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
    Revelation 17:6 Meaning
  • 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
    Revelation 17:7 Meaning
  • 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
    Revelation 17:8 Meaning
  • 9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
    Revelation 17:9 Meaning
  • 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
    Revelation 17:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
    Revelation 17:11 Meaning
  • 12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
    Revelation 17:12 Meaning
  • 13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
    Revelation 17:13 Meaning
  • 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
    Revelation 17:14 Meaning
  • 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
    Revelation 17:15 Meaning
  • 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
    Revelation 17:16 Meaning
  • 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
    Revelation 17:17 Meaning
  • 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
    Revelation 17:18 Meaning

REVELATION 19:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

• See Wife

Sources

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