WOMEN

Creation of

Ge 1:27; 2:21,22

Named

Ge 2:23

Fall of, and curse upon

Ge 3:1-16; 2Co 11:3; 1Ti 2:14

Promise to

Ge 3:15

Had separate apartments in dwellings

Ge 24:67; 31:33; Es 2:9,11

Veiled the face

Ge 24:65

See VAIL

Vows of

Nu 30:3-16

When jealously charged with infidelity, their guilt or innocence was to be determined by an ordeal

Nu 5:12-31

Took part in ancient worship

Ex 15:20; 21; 38:8; 1Sa 2:22

In chorus

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

Worshiped in separate compartments

Ex 38:8; 1Sa 2:22

Consecrated jewels to tabernacle

Ex 35:22

Mirrors

Ex 38:8

Required to attend to the reading of the law of Moses

De 31:12; Jos 8:35

Purifications of

After menstruation

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

After childbirth

Le 12; Lu 2:22

Difference in ceremonies made between male and female children

Le 12

Religious privileges of, among early Christians

Ac 1:14; 12:12,13; 1Co 11:5; 14:34; 1Ti 2:11

Domestic duties of

Ge 18:6; Pr 31:15-19; Mt 24:41

Cooked

Ge 18:6

Spun

Ex 35:25,26; 1Sa 2:19; Pr 31:19-24

Embroidered

Pr 31:22

Made garments

Ac 9:39

Gleaned

Ru 2:8

Kept vineyards

So 1:6

Tended flocks and herds

Ge 24:11,13,14,19,20; 29:9; Ex 2:16

Worked in fields

Isa 27:11; Eze 26:6,8

Was a doorkeeper

Mt 26:69; Joh 18:16,17; Ac 12:13,14

Forbidden to wear men's costume

De 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; Na 3:13

Are affectionate

2Sa 1:26

Are tender to her offspring

Isa 49:15; La 4:10

Are mirthsome

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

Are courteous to strangers

Ge 24:17

Could not marry without the consent of parents

Ge 24:3,4; 34:6; Ex 22:17

Not to be given in marriage was considered a calamity

Jud 11:37; Ps 78:63; Isa 4:1

Taken captive

Nu 31:9,15,17,18,35; La 1:18; Eze 30:17,18

Punishment to be inflicted upon men for seducing, when betrothed

De 22:23-27

Punishment for seducing, when not betrothed

Ex 22:16,17; De 22:28,29

Treated with cruelty in war

De 32:25; La 2:21; 5:11

Virtuous, held in high estimation

Ru 3:11; Pr 31:10-30

Fond of self-indulgence

Isa 32:9-11

Fond of ornaments

Jer 2:32

Subtle and deceitful

Pr 6:24-29,32-35; 7:6-27; Ec 7:26

Silly, and easily led into error

2Ti 3:6

Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry

Jer 7:18; Eze 13:17,23

Active in instigating to iniquity

Nu 31:15,16; 1Ki 21:25; Ne 13:26

Guilty of sodomy

2Ki 23:7; Ro 1:26

As rulers

Isa 3:12

Deborah

Jud 4:4

Athaliah

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

Queen of Sheba

1Ki 10:1-13

Queen Candace

Ac 8:27

A Persian queen sat on a throne beside her king

Ne 2:6

Patriotic

Miriam

Ex 15:20

Deborah

Jud 5

The women of Israel

1Sa 18:6

The women of the Philistines

2Sa 1:20

Help in defensive operations

Jud 9:53

As poets

Miriam

Ex 15:21

Deborah

Jud 5

Hannah

1Sa 2:1-10

Elisabeth

Lu 1:42-45

Mary

Lu 1:46-55

As prophets

Miriam

Ex 15:20,21; Mic 6:4

Deborah

Jud 4:4,5

Huldah

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

Noadiah

Ne 6:14

Anna

Lu 2:36-38

Philip's four unmarried daughters

Ac 21:9

False prophets

Eze 13:17-23

In business

Pr 31:14-18,24

Property rights of

In inheritance

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

To sell real estate

Ru 4:3-9

Sold for husband's debts

Mt 18:25

First to sin

Ge 3:6

Last at the cross

Mt 27:55,56; Mr 15:40,41

First at the gravesite

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

First to whom the risen Lord appeared

Mr 16:9; Joh 20:14-18

Converted by preaching of Paul

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

Social status of

In Persia

Es 1:10-22; Da 5:1-12

In Roman customs

Ac 24:24; 25:13,23; 26:30

UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO

Ge 2:18,21-24; 3:16; Es 1:20-22; Pr 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; Ec 7:26-28; Isa 3:16-24; 32:9-12; Eze 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 HUSBANDS

See PARENTS

GOOD

INSTANCES OF

Deborah, a judge, prophetess, and military leader

Jud 4; 5

Mother of Samson

Jud 13:23

Naomi

Ru 1; 2; 3:1

Ruth

Ru 1:4,14-22

And

Ru 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

Es 1:11,12

Esther

Es 4:15-17

Mary

Lu 1:26-38

Elisabeth

Lu 1:6,41-45

Anna

Lu 2:37

The widow who put her two mite (small coins, Greek

leptas) into the treasury

Mr 12:41-44; Lu 21:2-4

Mary and Martha

Mr 14:3-9; Lu 10:42; Joh 11:5

Mary Magdalene

Mr 16:1; Lu 8:2; Joh 20:1,2,11-16

Pilate's wife

Mt 27:19

Dorcas (Tabitha)

Ac 9:36

Lydia

Ac 16:14

Priscilla (Prisca)

Ac 18:26

Phoebe

Ro 16:1,2

Julia

Ro 16:15

Mary

Ro 16:6

Lois and Eunice

2Ti 1:5

The Philippian Christians

Php 4:3

FIGURATIVE

Of the body (ekklesia) of Christ

Ps 45:2-15; Ga 4:26; Re 12:1

Of saints

Mt 25:1-4; 2Co 11:2; Re 14:4

WICKED

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

Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry

2Ki 23:7; Ho 4:13,14

Full of deceit and licentiousness

Pr 2:16-19; 5:3-20; 6:24-29,32-35; 7:6-27; Ec 7:26; Eze 16:32

Commits forgery

1Ki 21:8

Silly and wayward

2Ti 3:6

INSTANCES OF

Eve, in yielding to temptation and seducing her husband

Ge 3:6; 1Ti 2:14

Sarah, in her jealousy and malice toward Hagar

Ge 21:9-11; with 21:12-21

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

Ge 19:26; Lu 17:32

The daughters of Lot, in their incestuous lust

Ge 19:31-38

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

Ge 27:11-17

Rachel, in her jealousy of Leah

Ge 30:1

Rachel, in stealing images

Ge 31:19,34

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

Ge 30:9-18

Dinah, in her fornication

Ge 34:1,2

Tamar, in her adultery

Ge 38:14-24

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

Ge 39:7-20

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

Ex 4:25,26

Miriam, in her sedition with Aaron against Moses

Nu 12

Rahab, in her harlotry

Jos 2:1

Delilah, in her conspiracy against Samson

Jud 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

Nu 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; Ne 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

Ne 6:14

Haman's wife, in advising him to hang Mordecai

Es 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

Ho 1:2,3; 3:1

Herodias, in her incestuous marriage with Herod Antipas

Mt 14:3,4; Mr 6:17-19; Lu 3:19

Herodius, by indirectly causing John the Baptist to be decapitated

Mt 14:6-11; Mr 6:24-28

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

Mt 14:8; Mr 6:18-28

Sapphira, in her blasphemous falsehood

Ac 5:2-10

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

Joh 8:1-11

FIGURATIVE

Of backsliding

Jer 6:2; Re 17:4,18

Of evil people

Isa 32:9,11; Mt 25:1-13

SYMBOLICAL

Of wickedness

Zec 5:7,8; Re 17; 19:2

See WIFE