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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 2:22Difference 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 1:20Help 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 1:46-55As 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 21:9False 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 4:3-9Sold 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; 26:30UNCLASSIFIED 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
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PARENTSGOOD
- INSTANCES OF
- Jud 4; 5
- Deborah, a judge, prophetess, and military leader
- 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 4:3FIGURATIVE
- 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 14:4WICKED - 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 3:6INSTANCES 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 8:1-11FIGURATIVE
- Of backsliding
- Jer 6:2; Re 17:4,18- Of evil people
- Isa 32:9,11; Mt 25:1-13SYMBOLICAL
- Of wickedness
- Zec 5:7,8; Re 17; 19:2- See
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