אשה

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanθ-at-. Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎀𐎘𐎚 (ảṯt), Aramaic אִנְתְּתָא‎ (ʾintəṯā), אִיתְּתָא‎ (ʾittəṯā), Arabic أُنْثَى‎ (ʔunṯā).

• אישה‎

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)iˈʃa/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [ʔiʃˈʃɔː]

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אִשָּׁה • ('ishá) f (plural indefinite נָשִׁים‎, singular construct אֵשֶׁת־‎, plural construct נְשׁוֹת־‎ or נְשֵׁי־‎, masculine counterpart אִישׁ‎) [pattern: קִטְלָה]

1. woman (adult female human)
2. wife (female spouse)
3. (Biblical Hebrew) a female animal
   • Genesis 7:2, with translation of the King James Version:

     ‏מִכֹּל הַבְּהֵמָה הַטְּהוֹרָה תִּקַּח לְךָ שִׁבְעָה שִׁבְעָה אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֹ וּמִן הַבְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר לֹא טְהֹרָה הִוא שְׁנַיִם אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֹ׃‎‎

     Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

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• אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ‎ ('éshet 'ísh)

• H802 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 233
• “אשה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Related to אֵשׁ‎ ('ésh, “fire”), which is from Proto-Semitic *ʾiš-.

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1. (biblical) burnt offering

• עוֹלָה‎ ('olá)

• H801 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 194-195