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Wife

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Wife in the Bible Dictionary

  1. Called
  2. Desire of the eyes Ezek 24:16
  3. Help Gen 2:18, 20
  4. Fruitful vine Ps 128:3
  5. The judgment denounced against Eve Gen 3:16
  6. Relation of, to husband Gen 2:18, 23, 24; 1 Cor 11:3–12
  7. Domestic duties of Gen 18:6; Prov 31:13–27
  8. Beloved, by Isaac Gen 24:67
  9. Beloved, by Jacob Gen 29:30
  10. Hated Gen 29:31–33
  11. Loyal Gen 31:14–16
  12. Unfaithful Num 5:14–31
  13. Potiphar’s Gen 39:7
  14. Bath-sheba 2 Sam 11:2–5
  15. Contentious, Zipporah Ex 4:25
  16. See UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES, below
  17. Idolatrous, Solomon’s wives 1 Kgs 11:4–8; Neh 13:26
  18. Jezebel 1 Kgs 21; 2 Kgs 9:30–37
  19. Incorruptible, Vashti Esth 1:10–22
  20. Tactful Abigail 1 Sam 25:3, 14–42
  21. Purchased Gen 29; Ex 21:7–11; Ruth 4:10
  22. Obtained by violence Judg 21
  23. Procured Gen 24; 34:4–10; 38:6
  24. Vows of Num 30:6–16
  25. See Divorce
  26. See Marriage
  27. See Virgin
  28. Unclassified scriptures relating to Gen 2:18, 23, 24; 3:16; Esth 1:20–22; Ps 128:3, 4; Prov 12:4; 14:1; 18:22; 19:13, 14; 21:9, 19; 25:24; 30:21–23; 31:10–31; 1 Cor 7:2–6, 10–14, 16, 27–29, 32–34, 38–40; 11:3, 7–9, 11, 12; 14:34, 35; Eph 5:22–25, 28, 31, 33; Col 3:18, 19; 1 Tim 3:11; 5:9, 10, 14; Titus 2:3–5; 1 Pet 3:1–7
  29. See Husband
  30. See Parents
  31. See Widow
  32. See Women

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.