Women: Creation Of

Gen 1:27; 2:21, 22

Women: Named

Gen 2:23

Women: Fall Of

And curse upon,

Gen 3:1-16; 2Cr 11:3; 1Ti 2:14.

Women: Promise To

Gen 3:15

Women: Had Separate Apartments in Dwellings

Gen 24:67; 31:33; Est 2:9, 11

Women: Veiled the Face

Gen 24:65;

see VEIL.

Women: Required to Attend

The reading of the law of Moses,

Deu 31:12; Jos 8:35.

Women: Purifications Of:

After menstruation,

Lev 15:19-33; 2Sa 11:4;

childbirth,

Lev 12; Luk 2:22.

Women: Difference in Ceremonies

Made between male and female children,

Lev 12.

Women: Religious Privileges Of

Among early Christians,

Act 1:14; 12:12, 13; 1Cr 11:5; 14:34; 1Ti 2:11.

Women: Domestic Duties Of

Gen 18:6; Pro 31:15-19; Mat 24:41

Cooked,

Gen 18:6;

spun,

Exd 35:25, 26; 1Sa 2:19; Pro 31:19-24;

embroidered,

Pro 31:22.

Made garments,

Act 9:39.

Gleaned,

Rth 2:8.

Kept vineyards,

Sgs 1:6.

Tended flocks and herds,

Gen 24:11, 13, 14, 19, 20; 29:9; Exd 2:16.

Worked in fields,

Isa 27:11; Eze 26:6, 8.

Was a doorkeeper,

Mat 26:69; Jhn 18:16, 17; Act 12:13, 14.

Women: Forbidden to Wear Men's Costume

Deu 22:5

Women: Wore Hair Long

1Cr 11:5-15

Women: Rules for Dress of Christian

1Ti 2:9, 10; 1Pe 3:3, 4

Women: Ornaments Of

Isa 3:16-23

Women: Weaker than Men

1Pe 3:7

Women: Are

Timid,

Isa 19:16; Jer 50:37; 51:30; Nah 3:13;

affectionate,

2Sa 1:26;

tender to her offspring,

Isa 49:15; Lam 4:10;

mirthsome,

Jdg 11:34; 21:21; Jer 31:13; Zec 9:17;

courteous to strangers,

Gen 24:17.

Women: Could Not Marry without the Consent of Parents

Gen 24:3, 4; 34:6; Exd 22:17

Women: Not to Be Given in Marriage

Was considered a calamity,

Jdg 11:37; Psa 78:63; Isa 4:1.

Women: Taken Captive

Num 31:9, 15, 17, 18, 35; Lam 1:18; Eze 30:17, 18

Women: Punishment to Be Inflicted upon Men for Seducing

When betrothed,

Deu 22:23-27.

Women: Punishment for Seducing

When not betrothed,

Exd 22:16, 17; Deu 22:28, 29.

Women: Treated with Cruelty in War

Deu 32:25; Lam 2:21; 5:11

Women: Virtuous

Held in high estimation,

Rth 3:11; Pro 31:10-30.

Women: Fond

Of self-indulgence,

Isa 32:9-11;

of ornaments,

Jer 2:32.

Women: Subtle and Deceitful

Pro 6:24-29, 32-35; 7:6-27; Ecc 7:26

Women: Silly

And easily led into error,

2Ti 3:6.

Women: Zealous in Promoting Superstition and Idolatry

Jer 7:18; Eze 13:17, 23

Women: Active in Instigating Iniquity

Num 31:15, 16; 1Ki 21:25; Neh 13:26

Women: Guilty of Sodomy

2Ki 23:7; Rom 1:26

Women: As Rulers

Isa 3:12;

Deborah,

Jdg 4:4;

Athaliah,

2Ki 11:1-16; 2Ch 22:2, 3, 10-12;

Queen of Sheba,

1Ki 10:1-13;

Queen Candace,

Act 8:27;

A Persian queen sat on a throne beside her king,

Neh 2:6.

Women: Patriotic:

Miriam,

Exd 15:20;

Deborah,

Jdg 5;

women of Israel,

1Sa 18:6;

of the Philistines,

2Sa 1:20.

Help in defensive operations,

Jdg 9:53.

Women: As Poets:

Miriam,

Exd 15:21;

Deborah,

Jdg 5;

Hannah,

1Sa 2:1-10;

Elisabeth,

Luk 1:42-45;

Mary,

Luk 1:46-55.

Women: As Prophets:

Miriam,

Exd 15:20, 21; Mic 6:4;

Deborah,

Jdg 4:4, 5;

Huldah,

2Ki 22:14-20; 2Ch 34:22-28;

Noadiah,

Neh 6:14;

Anna,

Luk 2:36-38;

Philip's four unmarried daughters,

Act 21:9.

Women: False Prophets

Eze 13:17-23

Women: In Business

Pro 31:14-18, 24

Women: Property Rights Of:

In inheritance,

Num 27:1-11; Num 36; Jos 17:3-6; Job 42:15;

to sell real estate,

Rth 4:3-9.

Women: Sold for Husband's Debts

Mat 18:25

Women: First to Sin

Gen 3:6

Women: Last at the Cross

Mat 27:55, 56; Mar 15:40, 41

Women: First at the Gravesite

Mar 15:46, 47; 16:1-6; Luk 23:27, 28, 49, 55, 56; 24:1-10

Women: First to Whom the Risen Lord Appeared

Mar 16:9; Jhn 20:14-18

Women: Converted by Preaching of Paul

Act 16:14, 15; 17:4, 12, 34

Women: Social Status Of:

In Persia,

Est 1:10-22; Dan 5:1-12;

in Roman customs,

Act 24:24; 25:13, 23; 26:30.

Women: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To:

Gen 2:18, 21-24; 3:16; Est 1:20-22; Pro 11:16, 22; 12:4; 14:1; 18:22; 19:13, 14; 21:9, 19; 25:24; 27:15, 16; 30:21-23; 31:10-31; Ecc 7:26-28; Isa 3:16-24; 32:9-12; Eze 13:17-23; 1Cr 11:3-15; 14:34, 35; 1Ti 2:9-15; 3:11; 5:1-16; 2Ti 3:6, 7; Tts 2:3-5

See WIDOW; WIFE
See also HUSBANDS; PARENTS

Women: Good:

INSTANCES OF:

Deborah, a judge, prophetess, and military leader,

Jdg 4; 5.

Mother of Samson,

Jdg 13:23.

Naomi,

Rth 1; 2; 3:1.

Ruth,

Rth 1:4, 14-22 and Rth 2; 3; 4.

Hannah, the mother of Samuel,

1Sa 1:9-18, 24-28.

Widow of Zarephath, who fed Elijah during the famine,

1Ki 17:8-24.

The Shunammite woman, who gave hospitality to Elisha,

2Ki 4:8-38.

Vashti,

Est 1:11, 12.

Esther,

Est 4:15-17.

Mary,

Luk 1:26-38.

Elisabeth,

Luk 1:6, 41-45.

Anna,

Luk 2:37.

The widow who put her two mites (small coins, Greek: leptas) into the treasury,

Mar 12:41-44; Luk 21:2-4.

Mary and Martha,

Mar 14:3-9; Luk 10:42; Jhn 11:5.

Mary Magdalene,

Mar 16:1; Luk 8:2; Jhn 20:1, 2, 11-16.

Pilate's wife,

Mat 27:19.

Dorcas (Tabitha),

Act 9:36.

Lydia,

Act 16:14.

Priscilla (Prisca),

Act 18:26.

Phoebe,

Rom 16:1, 2.

Julia,

Rom 16:15.

Mary,

Rom 16:6.

Lois and Eunice,

2Ti 1:5.

The Philippian Christians,

Phl 4:3.

Women: Good: Figurative:

Of the body (ekklesia) of Christ,

Psa 45:2-15; Gal 4:26; Rev 12:1.

Of saints,

Mat 25:1-4; 2Cr 11:2; Rev 14:4.

Women: Wicked:

2Ki 9:30-37; 23:7; Jer 44:15-19, 25; Eze 8:14; Rom 1:26

Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry,

2Ki 23:7; Hsa 4:13, 14.

Full of deceit and licentiousness,

Pro 2:16-19; 5:3-20; 6:24-29, 32-35; 7:6-27; Ecc 7:26; Eze 16:32.

Commits forgery,

1Ki 21:8.

Silly and wayward,

2Ti 3:6.

Women: Wicked: Instances Of:

Eve, in yielding to temptation and seducing her husband,

Gen 3:6; 1Ti 2:14.

Sarah, in her jealousy and malice toward Hagar,

Gen 21:9-11; with Gen 21:12-21.

Lot's wife, in her rebellion against her situation, and against the destruction of Sodom,

Gen 19:26; Luk 17:32.

The daughters of Lot, in their incestuous lust,

Gen 19:31-38.

Rebekah, in her partiality for Jacob, and her sharp practice to secure for him Isaac's blessing,

Gen 27:11-17.

Rachel, in her jealousy of Leah,

Gen 30:1;

in stealing images,

Gen 31:19, 34.

Leah, in her imitation of Rachel in the matter of children,

Gen 30:9-18.

Dinah, in her fornication,

Gen 34:1, 2.

Tamar, in her adultery,

Gen 38:14-24.

Potiphar's wife, in her lascivious lust and slander against Joseph,

Gen 39:7-20.

Zipporah, in her persecution of Moses on account of his religious obligations,

Exd 4:25, 26.

Miriam, in her sedition with Aaron against Moses,

Num 12.

Rahab, in her harlotry,

Jos 2:1.

Delilah, in her conspiracy against Samson,

Jdg 16:4-20.

Peninnah, the wife of Elkanah, in her jealous taunting of Hannah,

1Sa 1:4-8.

The Midianite woman in the camp of Israel, taken in adultery,

Num 25:6-8.

Michal, in her derision of David's religious zeal,

2Sa 6:16, 20-23.

Bath-sheba, in her adultery, in becoming the wife of her husband's murderer,

2Sa 11:4, 5, 27; 12:9, 10.

Solomon's wives, in their idolatrous and wicked influence over Solomon,

1Ki 11:1-11; Neh 13:26.

Jezebel, in her persecution and destruction of the prophets of the Lord,

1Ki 18:4, 13;

in her persecution of Elijah,

1Ki 19:2;

in her conspiracy against Naboth, to cheat him out of his vineyard,

1Ki 21:1-16;

in her evil counsels to, and influence over, Ahab,

1Ki 21:25; with 1Ki 21:17-27 and 2Ki 9:30-37.

The cannibalistic mothers of Samaria,

2Ki 6:28, 29.

Athaliah, in destroying the royal household and usurping the throne,

2Ki 11:1-16; 2Ch 22:10, 12; 23:12-15.

The sodomites of the southern kingdom (Judah),

2Ki 23:7.

Noadiah, a false prophetess in attempting to intimidate the Jews when they were restoring Jerusalem,

Neh 6:14.

Haman's wife, in advising him to hang Mordecai,

Est 5:14; 6:13.

Job's wife, in suggesting to him that he curse God and die,

Job 2:9; 19:17.

Gomer, the adulterous wife of Hosea,

Hsa 1:2, 3; 3:1.

Herodias, in her incestuous marriage with Herod Antipas,

Mat 14:3, 4; Mar 6:17-19; Luk 3:19;

by indirectly causing John the Baptist to be decapitated,

Mat 14:6-11; Mar 6:24-28.

The daughter of Herodias, in her complicity with her mother in securing the death of John the Baptist,

Mat 14:8; Mar 6:18-28.

Sapphira, in her blasphemous falsehood,

Act 5:2-10.

The woman caught in the act of adultery and brought to Jesus in the temple,

Jhn 8:1-11.

Women: Wicked: Figurative:

Of backsliding,

Jer 6:2; Rev 17:4, 18.

Of evil people,

Isa 32:9, 11; Mat 25:1-13.

Women: Wicked: Symbolical:

Of wickedness,

Zec 5:7, 8; Rev 17; 19:2.

See WIFE

Women: Vows Of

Num 30:3-16

Women: When Jealously Charged with Infidelity

Their guilt or innocence was to be determined by an ordeal,

Num 5:12-31.

Women: Took Part

In ancient worship,

Exd 15:20, 21; 38:8; 1Sa 2:22;

in choir,

1Ch 25:5, 6; Ezr 2:65; Neh 7:67.

Women: Worshiped in Separate Compartments

Exd 38:8; 1Sa 2:22

Women: Consecrated

Jewels to tabernacle,

Exd 35:22;

mirrors,

Exd 38:8.