WOMEN
Creation of GEN 1:27; 2:21,22
Named GEN 2:23
Fall of, and curse upon GEN 3:1-16; 2CO 11:3; 1TI 2:14
Promise to GEN 3:15
Had separate apartments in dwellings GEN 24:67; 31:33; EST 2:9,11
Veiled the face GEN 24:65
See VAIL
Vows of NUM 30:3-16
When jealously charged with infidelity, their guilt or innocence was to be determined by an ordeal NUM 5:12-31
Took part in ancient worship EXO 15:20; 21; 38:8; 1SA 2:22
In chorus 1CH 25:5,6; EZR 2:65; NEH 7:67
Worshiped in separate compartments EXO 38:8; 1SA 2:22
Consecrated jewels to tabernacle EXO 35:22
Mirrors EXO 38:8
Required to attend to the reading of the law of Moses DEU 31:12; JOS 8:35
Purifications of
After menstruation LEV 15:19-33; 2SA 11:4
After childbirth LEV 12; LUK 2:22
Difference in ceremonies made between male and female children LEV 12
Religious privileges of, among early Christians ACT 1:14; 12:12,13; 1CO 11:5; 14:34; 1TI 2:11
Domestic duties of GEN 18:6; PRO 31:15-19; MAT 24:41
Cooked GEN 18:6
Spun EXO 35:25,26; 1SA 2:19; PRO 31:19-24
Embroidered PRO 31:22
Made garments ACT 9:39
Gleaned RUT 2:8
Kept vineyards So 1:6
Tended flocks and herds GEN 24:11,13,14,19,20; 29:9; EXO 2:16
Worked in fields ISA 27:11; EZK 26:6,8
Was a doorkeeper MAT 26:69; JHN 18:16,17; ACT 12:13,14
Forbidden to wear men' s costume DEU 22:5
Wore hair long 1CO 11:5-15
Rules for dress of Christian 1TI 2:9,10; 1PE 3:3,4
Ornaments of ISA 3:16-23
Weaker than men 1PE 3:7
Are timid ISA 19:16; JER 50:37; 51:30; NAM 3:13
Are affectionate 2SA 1:26
Are tender to her offspring ISA 49:15; LAM 4:10
Are mirthsome JDG 11:34; 21:21; JER 31:13; ZEC 9:17
Are courteous to strangers GEN 24:17
Could not marry without the consent of parents GEN 24:3,4; 34:6; EXO 22:17
Not to be given in marriage was considered a calamity JDG 11:37; PSA 78:63; ISA 4:1
Taken captive NUM 31:9,15,17,18,35; LAM 1:18; EZK 30:17,18
Punishment to be inflicted upon men for seducing, when betrothed DEU 22:23-27
Punishment for seducing, when not betrothed EXO 22:16,17; DEU 22:28,29
Treated with cruelty in war DEU 32:25; LAM 2:21; 5:11
Virtuous, held in high estimation RUT 3:11; PRO 31:10-30
Fond of self-indulgence ISA 32:9-11
Fond of ornaments JER 2:32
Subtle and deceitful PRO 6:24-29,32-35; 7:6-27; ECC 7:26
Silly, and easily led into error 2TI 3:6
Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry JER 7:18; EZK 13:17,23
Active in instigating to iniquity NUM 31:15,16; 1KI 21:25; NEH 13:26
Guilty of sodomy 2KI 23:7; ROM 1:26
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
Patriotic
Miriam EXO 15:20
Deborah JDG 5
The women of Israel 1SA 18:6
The women of the Philistines 2SA 1:20
Help in defensive operations JDG 9:53
As poets
Miriam EXO 15:21
Deborah JDG 5
Hannah 1SA 2:1-10
Elisabeth LUK 1:42-45
Mary LUK 1:46-55
As prophets
Miriam EXO 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
False prophets EZK 13:17-23
In business PRO 31:14-18,24
Property rights of
In inheritance NUM 27:1-11; 36; JOS 17:3-6; JOB 42:15
To sell real estate RUT 4:3-9
Sold for husband' s debts MAT 18:25
First to sin GEN 3:6
Last at the cross MAT 27:55,56; MRK 15:40,41
First at the gravesite MRK 15:46,47; 16:1-6; LUK 23:27,28,49,55,56; 24:1-10
First to whom the risen Lord appeared MRK 16:9; JHN 20:14-18
Converted by preaching of Paul ACT 16:14,15; 17:4,12,34
Social status of
In Persia EST 1:10-22; DAN 5:1-12
In Roman customs ACT 24:24; 25:13,23; 26:30
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; EZK 13:17-23; 1CO 11:3-15; 14:34,35; 1TI 2:9-15; 3:11; 5:1-16; 2TI 3:6,7; TIT 2:3-5
See WIDOW
See WIFE
See also [4261]HUSBANDS
See PARENTS
GOOD
INSTANCES OF
Deborah, a judge, prophetess, and military leader JDG 4; 5
Mother of Samson JDG 13:23
Naomi RUT 1; 2; 3:1
Ruth RUT 1:4,14-22
And RUT 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 mite (small coins, Greek: leptas) into the treasury MRK 12:41-44; LUK 21:2-4
Mary and Martha MRK 14:3-9; LUK 10:42; JHN 11:5
Mary Magdalene MRK 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 PHP 4:3
FIGURATIVE
Of the body (ekklesia) of Christ PSA 45:2-15; GAL 4:26; REV 12:1
Of saints MAT 25:1-4; 2CO 11:2; REV 14:4
WICKED 2KI 9:30-37; 23:7; JER 44:15-19,25; EZK 8:14; ROM 1:26
Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry 2KI 23:7; HOS 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; EZK 16:32
Commits forgery 1KI 21:8
Silly and wayward 2TI 3:6
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 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
Rachel, 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 EXO 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
Jezebel, in her persecution of Elijah 1KI 19:2
Jezebel, in her conspiracy against Naboth, to cheat him out of his vineyard 1KI 21:1-16
Jezebel, in her evil counsels to, and influence over, Ahab 1KI 21:25; with 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 HOS 1:2,3; 3:1
Herodias, in her incestuous marriage with Herod Antipas MAT 14:3,4; MRK 6:17-19; LUK 3:19
Herodius, by indirectly causing John the Baptist to be decapitated MAT 14:6-11; MRK 6:24-28
The daughter of Herodias, in her complicity with her mother in securing the death of John the Baptist MAT 14:8; MRK 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
FIGURATIVE
Of backsliding JER 6:2; REV 17:4,18
Of evil people ISA 32:9,11; MAT 25:1-13
SYMBOLICAL
Of wickedness ZEC 5:7,8; REV 17; 19:2
See WIFE
