Nave’s Topical Bible
Women
291 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Creation of
- Named
- Fall of, and curse upon
- Promise to
- Had separate apartments in dwellings
- Veiled the face
See VAIL
- Vows of
- When jealously charged with infidelity, their guilt or Innocence was to be determined by an ordeal
- Took part in ancient worship
- In chorus
- Worshiped in separate compartments
- Consecrated jewels to tabernacle
- Mirrors
- Required to attend to the reading of the law of Moses
- Purifications of
- After menstruation
- After childbirth
- Difference in ceremonies made between male and female children
- Religious privileges of, among early Christians
Acts 1:14; Acts 12:12-13; 1 Corinthians 11:5; 1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Timothy 2:11
- Domestic duties of
- Cooked
- Spun
- Embroidered
- Made garments
- Gleaned
- Kept vineyards
- Tended flocks and herds
- Worked in fields
- Was a doorkeeper
- Forbidden to wear men's costume
- Wore hair long
- Rules for dress of Christian
- Ornaments of
- Weaker than men
- Are timid
- Are affectionate
- Are tender to her offspring
- Are mirthsome
- Are courteous to strangers
- Could not marry without the consent of parents
- Not to be given in marriage was considered a calamity
- Taken captive
Numbers 31:9,15,17-18,35; Lamentations 1:18; Ezekiel 30:17-18
- Punishment to be inflicted upon men for seducing, when Betrothed
- Punishment for seducing, when not betrothed
- Treated with cruelty in war
- Virtuous, held in high estimation
- Fond of self-indulgence
- Fond of ornaments
- Subtle and deceitful
- Silly, and easily led into error
- Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry
- Active in instigating to iniquity
- Guilty of sodomy
- As rulers
- Deborah
- Athaliah
- Queen of Sheba
- Queen Candace
- A Persian queen sat on a throne beside her king
- Patriotic
- Miriam
- Deborah
- The women of Israel
- The women of the Philistines
- Help in defensive operations
- As poets
- Miriam
- Deborah
- Hannah
- Elisabeth
- Mary
- As prophets
- Miriam
- Deborah
- Huldah
- Noadiah
- Anna
- Philip's four unmarried daughters
- False prophets
- In business
- Property rights of
- In inheritance
- To sell real estate
- Sold for husband's debts
- First to sin
- Last at the cross
- First at the gravesite
Mark 15:46-47; Mark 16:1-6; Luke 23:27-28,49,55-56; Luke 24:1-10
- First to whom the risen Lord appeared
- Converted by preaching of Paul
- Social status of
- In Persia
- In Roman customs
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Genesis 2:18,21-24; Genesis 3:16; Esther 1:20-22; Proverbs 11:16,22; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 14:1; Proverbs 18:22; Proverbs 19:13-14; Proverbs 21:9,19; Proverbs 25:24; Proverbs 27:15-16; Proverbs 30:21-23; Proverbs 31:10-31; Ecclesiastes 7:26-28; Isaiah 3:16-24; Isaiah 32:9-12; Ezekiel 13:17-23; 1 Corinthians 11:3-15; 1 Corinthians 14:34-35; 1 Timothy 2:9-15; 1 Timothy 3:11; 1 Timothy 5:1-16; 2 Timothy 3:6-7; Titus 2:3-5
- GOOD
- INSTANCES OF
- Mother of Samson
- Naomi
- Ruth
- And
- Hannah, the mother of Samuel
- Widow of Zarephath, who fed Elijah during the famine
- The Shunammite woman, who gave hospitality to Elisha
- Vashti
- Esther
- Mary
- Elisabeth
- Anna
- The widow who put her two mite (small coins, Greek: leptas) Into the treasury
- Mary and Martha
- Mary Magdalene
- Pilate's wife
- Dorcas (Tabitha)
- Lydia
- Priscilla (Prisca)
- Phoebe
- Julia
- Mary
- Lois and Eunice
- The Philippian Christians
- FIGURATIVE
- Of the body (ekklesia) of Christ
- Of saints
- WICKED
2 Kings 9:30-37; 2 Kings 23:7; Jeremiah 44:15-19,25; Ezekiel 8:14; Romans 1:26
- Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry
- Full of deceit and licentiousness
Proverbs 2:16-19; Proverbs 5:3-20; Proverbs 6:24-29,32-35; Proverbs 7:6-27; Ecclesiastes 7:26; Ezekiel 16:32
- Commits forgery
- Silly and wayward
- INSTANCES OF
- Eve, in yielding to temptation and seducing her husband
- Sarah, in her jealousy and malice toward Hagar
- Lot's wife, in her rebellion against her situation, and Against the destruction of Sodom
- The daughters of Lot, in their incestuous lust
- Rebekah, in her partiality for Jacob, and her sharp practice To secure for him Isaac's blessing
- Rachel, in her jealousy of Leah
- Rachel, in stealing images
- Leah, in her imitation of Rachel in the matter of children
- Dinah, in her fornication
- Tamar, in her adultery
- Potiphar's wife, in her lascivious lust and slander against Joseph
- Zipporah, in her persecution of Moses on account of his Religious obligations
- Miriam, in her sedition with Aaron against Moses
- Rahab, in her harlotry
- Delilah, in her conspiracy against Samson
- Peninnah, the wife of Elkanah, in her jealous taunting of Hannah
- The Midianite woman in the camp of Israel, taken in adultery
- Michal, in her derision of David's religious zeal
- Bath-sheba, in her adultery, in becoming the wife of her Husband's murderer
- Solomon's wives, in their idolatrous and wicked influence Over Solomon
- Jezebel, in her persecution and destruction of the prophets Of the Lord
- Jezebel, in her persecution of Elijah
- Jezebel, in her conspiracy against Naboth, to cheat him out Of his vineyard
- Jezebel, in her evil counsels to, and influence over, Ahab
- And
- The cannibalistic mothers of Samaria
- Athaliah, in destroying the royal household and usurping the Throne
2 Kings 11:1-16; 2 Chronicles 22:10,12; 2 Chronicles 23:12-15
- The sodomites of the southern kingdom (Judah)
- Noadiah, a false prophetess in attempting to intimidate the Jews when they were restoring Jerusalem
- Haman's wife, in advising him to hang Mordecai
- Job's wife, in suggesting to him that he curse God and die
- Gomer, the adulterous wife of Hosea
- Herodias, in her incestuous marriage with Herod Antipas
- Herodius, by indirectly causing John the Baptist to be Decapitated
- The daughter of Herodias, in her complicity with her mother In securing the death of John the Baptist
- Sapphira, in her blasphemous falsehood
- The woman caught in the act of adultery and brought to Jesus In the temple
- FIGURATIVE
- Of backsliding
- Of evil people
- SYMBOLICAL
- Of wickedness
See WIFE
Bible verses about “Women”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 2:21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- Genesis 2:22And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
- Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
- Genesis 3:2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
- Genesis 3:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
- Genesis 3:4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
- Genesis 3:5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
- Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:9And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
- Genesis 3:10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
- Genesis 3:11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
- Genesis 3:12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
- Genesis 3:13And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
- Genesis 3:14And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- Genesis 3:16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
- 2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- 1 Timothy 2:14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
- Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 31:33And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
- Esther 2:9And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
- Esther 2:11And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
- Genesis 24:65For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
- Numbers 30:3If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
- Numbers 30:4And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:5But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
- Numbers 30:6And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
- Numbers 30:7And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:8But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.
- Numbers 30:9But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
- Numbers 30:10And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
- Numbers 30:11And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:12But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.
- Numbers 30:13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
- Numbers 30:14But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
- Numbers 30:15But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.