Female
Female
ECCLESIASTIC. (For monographs, see Volbeding, Index, p. 164.) SEE MINISTRY; SEE DEACONESS; SEE AGAPETAE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Female
femal: Two Hebrew words are thus translated:
(1) , nekebhah, which is merely a physiological description of the sexual characteristic (from , nakabh, to perforate), and which corresponds to , zakhar, male (see under the word).
(2) , ‘ishshah, with the irregular plural , nashm (only Gen 7:2, in all other places wife, woman), the feminine form of , ‘sh, man.
The Greek word is , thelus, literally, the nursing one, the one giving suck (from , thelazo, to suckle).
Israelitic law seems frequently guilty of unjust partiality in favor of the male sex, but we have to consider that most of these legal and religious disabilities of women can be explained from the social conditions prevailing at the time of legislation. They are therefore found also in contemporaneous Gentile religions. Though traces of this prejudice against the weaker sex are found in the New Testament, the religious discrimination between the sexes has practically ceased, as is evident from Gal 3:28 : There can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus; compare also 1Pe 3:7.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Female
an adjective (from thele, “a breast”), is used in the form thelu (grammatically neuter) as a noun, “female,” in Mat 19:4; Mar 10:6; Gal 3:28; in the feminine form theleia, in Rom 1:26, “women;” Rom 1:27 “woman.” See WOMAN.