Dictionaries :: Women

Nave's Topical Bible

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.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Women:

The position of women in the Hebrew commonwealth contrasts favorably with that which in the present day is assigned to them generally in eastern countries. The most salient point of contrast in the usages of ancient as compared with modern Oriental society was the large amount of liberty enjoyed by women. Instead of being immured in a harem, or appearing in public with the face covered. The wives and maidens of ancient times mingled freely and openly with the other sex in the duties and amenities of ordinary life. Rebekah travelled on a camel with her face unveiled until she came into the presence of her affianced (Genesis 24:64-65). Jacob saluted Rachel with a kiss in the presence of the shepherds (Genesis 29:11). Women played no inconsiderable part in public celebrations (Exodus 15:20, 21; Judges 11:34). The odes of Deborah, Judges, and of Hannah (1 Samuel 2:1 etc.) exhibit a degree of intellectual cultivation which is in itself a proof of the position of the sex in that period. Women also occasionally held public office, particularly that of prophetess or inspired teacher (Exodus 15:20; Judges 4:4; 2 Kings 22:14; Nehemiah 6:14; Luke 2:36). The management of household affairs devolved mainly on the women. The value of a virtuous and active housewife forms a frequent topic in the book of Proverbs (Proverbs 11:16; 12:4; 14:1; 31:10 etc.). Her influence was of course proportionally great.