gynē · woman, wife

What it means

gynē (γυνή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “woman, wife”.

Woman; with a possessive, wife.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An adult female person; when addressing her, a respectful form.
2. A married woman, joined to her husband.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Woman; with a possessive or beside “husband”, wife.

• A woman Luke 7:37Luke 8:43
• The wife: “joined to his wife” Matthew 19:5Mark 10:2
• In addressing someone: “Woman” John 19:26John 20:13
• The woman of the visions of Revelation Revelation 12:13Revelation 17:6

How we translate it

“Woman” 92 times, “wife” 76, “women” 32, “wives” 11. The Greek has one word for both; English says “wife” where there is a possessive or the subject is marriage (“joined to his wife”, Matthew 19:5), and “woman” elsewhere, also when Jesus addresses his mother (John 19:26).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• woman ×92
• wife ×76
• women ×32
• wives ×11
• widow ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×30
• Mark×17
• Luke×41
• John×18
• Acts×19
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×41
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×9
• Colossians×2
• 1 Timothy×9
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×3
• Revelation×19

• Matthew 1:20

  And as he was considering these things, look, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to yourself Mary as your wife, for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

• Matthew 1:24

  And Joseph, rising from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took to himself his wife;

• Matthew 5:28

  But I tell you that everyone who looks at a woman in order to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

• Matthew 5:31

  And it was said, ‘Whoever sends away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

• Matthew 5:32

  But I tell you that everyone who sends away his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who has been sent away commits adultery.

• Matthew 9:20

  And look, a woman who had been suffering from bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak;

• Matthew 9:22

  Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

• Matthew 11:11

  Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Immerser; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

• Matthew 13:33

  He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

• Matthew 14:3

  For Herod, having seized John, bound him and put him away in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother,

• Matthew 14:21

  And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

• Matthew 15:22

  And look, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is badly demon-possessed.”

• Matthew 15:28

  Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

• Matthew 15:38

  And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

• Matthew 18:25

  And since he did not have the means to repay, the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

• Matthew 19:3

  And Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

• Matthew 19:5

  and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

• Matthew 19:8

  He says to them, “Moses, because of your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

• Matthew 19:9

  And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

• Matthew 19:10

  The disciples say to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

• Matthew 19:29

  And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

• Matthew 22:24

  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Matthew 22:25

  Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first married and died, and not having offspring, he left his wife to his brother;

• Matthew 22:27

  And last of all the woman died.

• Matthew 22:28

  In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”

• Matthew 26:7

  a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

• Matthew 26:10

  But Jesus, knowing it, said to them, “Why do you cause trouble for the woman? For she has done a beautiful work for me.

• Matthew 27:19

  And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Let there be nothing between you and that righteous man; for I have suffered much today in a dream because of him.”

• Matthew 27:55

  And there were there many women watching from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him;

• Matthew 28:5

  But the angel answered the women, “Do not be afraid, you, for I know that you are seeking Jesus, who has been crucified.

• Mark 5:25

  And a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,

• Mark 5:33

  But the woman, afraid and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

• Mark 6:17

  For Herod himself had sent and seized John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

• Mark 6:18

  For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

• Mark 7:25

  But at once a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard about him, came and fell at his feet.

• Mark 7:26

  Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth; and she was asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

• Mark 10:2

  And they were asking him whether it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife, testing him.

• Mark 10:7

  ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

• Mark 10:11

  And he says to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;

• Mark 12:19

  “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, his brother should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

And 172 more times.