The word in Scripture

Wife in the Bible

The word wife appears 407 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A wife is joined to her husband in covenant love. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What wife means in the Bible

A wife is joined to her husband in covenant love.

Where the word wife appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word wife appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.”Genesis 25:21

“Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”Psalms 109:9

“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”Psalms 128:3

“Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.”Matthew 22:24

“And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.”Luke 1:18

“Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.”Luke 20:33

“Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”John 19:25

“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”Ephesians 5:33