Dictionaries :: Wife, Wives

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Wife, Wives:

denotes

(1) "a woman, married or unmarried" (see WOMAN);

(2) "a wife," e.g., Mat 1:20; 1Cr 7:3, 4; in 1Ti 3:11, RV, "woman," the reference may be to the "wives" of deacons, as the AV takes it.

Wife, Wives:

an adjective denoting "womanly, female," is used as a noun in 1Pe 3:7, AV, "wife," RV, "woman."

Note: In Jhn 19:25 the article stands idiomatically for "the wife (of);" in Mat 1:6, the article is rendered "her that had been the wife (of)."