Male, Female, Man, Woman, Husband, Wife,
One, Bride and Bridegroom

Male & Man


  Male Hebrew word zakar defined as a male

 Greek word

Man Hebrew word adam defined as a man, human being

 Greek word aner defined as a man, husband

Female & Woman

Female Hebrew word neqebah defined as a female

Greek word thelus defined as a female

Woman Hebrew word ishshah defined as a woman

Greek word gune defined as a woman, wife

  1. Genesis 1:26-31

v26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

v27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

v28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

v29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

v30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every things that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

v31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

  1. Genesis 2:18, 21-25

v18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

v21 And the Lord 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;

v22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto man.

v23 And 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.

v24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

v25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

  1. Genesis 5:2-3

v2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

v3 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

 

  1. Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9

v4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female.

v5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

v6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
 

  1. I Corinthians 11:7-9,11-12

v7 Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

v8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

v11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

v12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

 

  1. Galatians 3:27-29

v27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

v28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

v29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

 

  1. Galatians 4:4-6

v4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

v5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

v6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.


 

Husband & Wife

Husband Hebrew word ish meaning a man

Greek word aner meaning a man

Wife Hebrew word ishshah meaning a woman, wife, female

Greek word gune meaning a woman, a wife
 

  1. Genesis 2:24-25

v24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

v25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

  1. Genesis 3:8. 17, 20-21

v8 And 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.

v17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of they life;

v20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

v21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

 

  1. Genesis 4:1, 25

v1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

v25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
 

  1. Matthew 19:8-9, 29; Luke 16:18

v8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

v9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commiteth adultery: and whoso married her which is put away doth commit adultery.

v29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake shall inherit everlasting life.

 

  1. Mark 10:7-8, 29-30; Luke 19:29

v7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

v8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

v29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sister, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,

v30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
 

  1. I Corinthians 7:2-4, 10-12, 13-14, 16, 34, 39

v2...Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

v3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

v4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, bu the wife.

v10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

v11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

v13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

v14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

v16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

v34 ...She that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

v39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

 

  1. I Corinthians 9:5

v5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

 

  1. Ephesians 5:21-25, 28, 30-33

v21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

v22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

v23 For the husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

v24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

v25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

v28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

v30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

v31 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.

v32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

v33 Nevertheless let every one of your in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
 

  1. Colossians 3:18-19

v18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

v19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

 

  1. I Timothy 3:2, 12

v2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife...

v12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife...

 

  1. Titus 1:6; 2:4-5

1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife...

2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.

2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

 

  1. I Peter 3:1, 5, 7

v1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

v5 For after his manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

v7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

 

  1. Revelation 19:7-9

v7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

v8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

v9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

 

  1. Revelation 21:2

v2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.


 

One Flesh

One Hebrew word echad meaning one

Greek word mia meaning one

Flesh Hebrew word basar meaning flesh

Greek word sarx meaning flesh

 

1. Genesis 2:20-25

v20 ...But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

v21 And 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 there of;

v22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

v23 And 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.

v24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

v25 And the were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

2. Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9

v4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

v5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

v6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

 

3. I Corinthians 6:16

v16 What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

 

4, Ephesians 5:31

v31 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.
 

  1. Philippians 1:27

v27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;


 

One in Christ

Greek word for one is heis meaning one

Greek word for Christ is christos meaning Anointed One, Messiah

 

  1. John 17:11, 20-26

v11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as are (one).

v20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

v21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

v22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

v23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

v24 Father, I will that they also, who thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

v25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

v26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

 

  1. Romans 15:6

v6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
 

  1. I Corinthians 6:16-17

v16 What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

v17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

 

  1. I Corinthians 10:17

v17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
 

  1. I Corinthians 12:11-13, 18-20, 26-27

v11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

v12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

v13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

v18 But not hath God set the members everyone of them in the body, as it had pleased him.

v19 And if there were all one member, where were the body?

v20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

v26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.

v27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

 

  1. II Corinthians 11:2

v2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

 

  1. Galatians 3:16, 28

v16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

v28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

  1. Ephesians 2:14-16,

v14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between;

v15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain, one new man, so making peace;

v16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

 

  1. Ephesians 4:4

v4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

v5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

v6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in your all.

 

  1. Philippians 1:27

v27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

 

  1. Philippians 2:2

Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, with of one accord, of one mind.

 

  1. Colossians 3:15

v15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called one body; and be ye thankful.

 

  1. Hebrews 2:11-12

v11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

v12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.


 

Christ the Bride Groom/Church the Bride

Greek word for Christ is Christos meaning Anointed One, Messiah

Greek word for bride is numphe meaning bride

Greek word for bridegroom is numphios meaning bridegroom

Greek word for church is ekklesia meaning that which is called out

Greek word for bride is numphe meaning bride

 

  1. John 3:29

v29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

v30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
 

  1. Revelation 21:2, 9-11

v2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

v9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

v10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

v11 Having the glory of God...


 

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