As promised, here is woman. Gyne is a Greek word that means woman or wife. According to Thayer’s Greek Lexicon this woman can be “a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow”. (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon link.) Gyne, in its forms, occurs in the New Testament 217 times (Strong’s link). Almost half of these are in the four Gospels.
If you look up this word in some references, like my NIV Hebrew-Greek Study Bible, you will see it transliterated as gyne. In other references, it is gune (like biblehub.com). I can’t tell you why. It might have to deal with different pronunciations: whether it’s early Greek, or Classical Greek, or Modern Greek. I would lean towards gune on one hand, because in Greek it is spelled with upsilon, which is like our u. Capitalized, upsilon is Y. But I decided to use gyne, because it make it easier to remember it’s meaning in relation to English words.
In English, think of words with ‘gyn’ in them, such as: gynecology(health care for women), misogynist (hater of women), gynophobia (fear of women), philogyny (love towards women), and many other words that most of us have never heard of.
In the New Testament we find such women as Mary, Mary Magdalene, Mary and Martha, Lydia, Dorcas, Rhoda, Priscilla, Lois, Eunice, and others.
Verses:
Matthew 14:21 NASB There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.
Matthew 15:28 NIV Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.
Matthew 27:55 ESV There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him.
Mark 14:3 NASB While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.
Luke 7:44 KJV And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Luke 16:18 ESV Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
John 4:39 NIV Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman‘s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
Acts 1:14 NASB These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
Acts 13:50 KJV But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Acts 16:14 ESV One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
Romans 7:2 NASB For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3-4 NASB The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does
Galatians 4:4 NIV But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.
Ephesians 5:22-25 ESV Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Ephesians 5:31 KJV For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Colossians 3:18-19 NIV Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
1 Timothy 2:9 NASB Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
1 Timothy 3:2 NIV Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.
1 Timothy 3:11 ESV Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
1 Peter 3:1 NASB In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives.
Revelation 2:20 NIV Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 19:7 KJV Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself. (Many translations use bride here for gyne, as it seems as though the “woman” has prepared herself for the marriage, but is not yet married. NIV, ESV, NASB, and others.)
The G/K number for gyne is 1222.
The Strong’s number for gune is 1135.
