Quick Definition
female
Strong's Definition
female
Derivation: from the same as G2337 (θηλάζω);
KJV Usage: female, woman
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θῆλυς, θηλείᾳ, θῆλυ (cf. θηλάζω, at the beginning), of the female sex; ἡ θηλείᾳ, a substantive, a woman, a female: Rom_1:26 f; also τό θῆλυ, Mat_19:4; Mar_10:6; Gal_3:28. (Gen_1:27; Gen_7:2; Exo_1:16, euc.; in Greek writings from Homer down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θῆλυς thēlys 5x
female; τὸ θῆλυ , i.e. γένος , a female, Mat_19:4 ; Mar_10:6 ; Gal_3:28 ; ἡ θήλεια , woman, Rom_1:26-27
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
θῆλυς , -εια , -υ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5347 ;]
female: as subst ., ἡ θ ., a female, a woman: Rom_1:26-27 ; τὸ θ .., Mat_19:4 , Mar_10:6 , Gal_3:28 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θῆλυς [page 291]
A striking ex. of this adj. occurs in P Oxy IV. 744 .10 (B.C.1) (= Selections , p. 33) where a husband writes to his wife with reference to an unborn child ἐὰν ἦν ἄρσενον , ἄφες , ἐὰν ἦν θήλεα , ἔκβαλε , if it is a male, let it live; if it is a female, expose it. The word is common with reference to animals, e.g. P Ryl II. 145 .16 (A.D. 38) ὄνον θήλειαν , PSI I.39 .5 (A.D. 148) ἵπον ( l.ἵππον ) θήλειαν , and P Strass I. 30 .6 (A.D. 276) βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρά σου αἶγας θηλείας τε [λ ]είας ἀθανάτους ἀριθμῷ πεντήκοντα ἕξ , where ἀθανάτους refers to the number of the goats : they were immortal in the same sense as the Persian Guard, in that the stock was to be kept up at its full strength.
For the form θηλυκός , as in MGr, see BGU I. 95 .17 (A.D. 147) τ [έκνα ] θ [ηλ ]υκὰ τρία , and P Oxy XII. 1458 .10 (A.D. 216 17) πρ [όβ (ατα ) ξ̄ , ἄ ]ρρ (ενα ) ζ̄ , θηλ (υκὰ ) λ̄ [., 60 sheep, 7 male, 3[.] female (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
θῆλυς [Etym: *θάω "to suckle"] of female sex, female, θήλεια θεός a goddess, Il. ; θήλειαι ἵπποι mares, Od. ; σύες θήλειαι sows, id=Od. ; ὄϊς θῆλυς a ewe, Il. ; ἄπαις θήλεος γόνου without "female" issue, Hdt. :— ἡ θήλεα, attic -εια, "the female", id=Hdt. , Aesch. ; χρῆμα θηλειῶν "woman"-kind, Eur. ; τὸ θῆλυ γένος or τὸ θῆλυ the "female" sex, "woman" kind, id=Eur. "of or belonging to women", Hdt. , Aesch. ; θ. φόνος murder "by women", Eur. in Gramm. "feminine." applied to persons and things, "fresh, refreshing", of dew, Hes. "tender, delicate, gentle", θηλύτεραι γυναῖκες, θηλύτεραι θεαί (where the comp. is used much like a Positive), Hom. ; θῆλυς ἀπὸ χροιᾶς "delicate" of skin, Theocr. ; of character, "soft, yielding, weak", γυνὴ θῆλυς οὖσα Soph.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
θῆλυς, -εια, -υ
[in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה ;]
female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Rom.1:26-27; τὸ θ.., Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Gal.3:28.†
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📖 In-Depth Word Study
Women (2338) thelus
Women (2338) (thelus from thÃ"lÃ" = a breast) is not the noble one (gune/gyne) which usually is used for "women" but aptly denotes sex only, as in the lower creatures. Thelus thus refers to the female of any living creature.
Thelus is used 5 times in the NT - Mt 19:4; Mk 10:6; Ro 1:26, 27; Gal. 3:28
Thelus is used 37 times in the Septuagint (LXX) -- Ge 1:27; 5:2; 6:19, 20; 7:2, 3, 9, 16; Ex 1:16, 22; Lev 3:1, 6; 4:28, 32; 5:6; 12:5, 7; 15:33; 27:4, 5, 6; Nu 31:15; Jdg 5:10; 1Ki 4:21; 2Chr 9:25; Job 1:3, 14; 42:12; Pr 30:31; Amos 6:12
Barnes notes that...
Evidence of the shameful and disgraceful fact here charged on the women is abundant in the Greek and Roman writers.
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