noun · feminine
gunaikas
Strong’sG1135
a woman, wife, my lady
stem gunaik-216 times in the New Testamentin 15 of 27 books10 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
A woman — a female person, whether married or unmarried 1. It is also used as a form of direct address to a woman, functioning as a respectful or affectionate title rather than a rebuke, comparable to my lady 134.
A wife — a married woman, as in expressions like having a wife, taking a wife, or divorcing a wife 124.
In one New Testament passage the word is used to mean a deaconess 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
γυνή, -αικός, ἡ,
[in LXX for אִשָּׁה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1135 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgoo-nay'
a woman; specially, a wife
Fromprobably from the base of G1096;
King Jameswife, woman.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect γυνά, Boeotian dialect βανά (see entry), ἡ, genitive γυναικός, accusative γυναῖκα, vocative γύναι (γυνή Refs 6th c.BC+: Aeolic dialect dative plural γυναίκεσσι Refs 7th c.BC+:—woman, opposed to man,Refs 8th c.BC+ substantive, γ. ταμίηRefs 8th c.BC+; γρηΰς (which see), ἀλετρίς (which see), δμῳαὶ γυναῖκες Refs 8th c.BC+: vocative, as a term of respect or affection, mistress, lady, Refs 5th c.BC+; φαντὶ γυναῖκες the lasses say, Refs; πρὸς γυναικός like a woman, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅρκους γυναικὸς εἰς ὕδωρ γράφω Refs 5th c.BC+
II wife, spouse, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἑταίρα, Refs 4th c.BC+; γ. γνησία, Refs 4th c.BC+; also, concubine, Refs 8th c.BC+
III mortal woman, opposed to goddess,Refs 8th c.BC+
IV female, mate of animals, Refs 4th c.BC+— Not to be taken as adjective in γυναῖκα θήσατο μαζόν Refs 8th c.BC+. (Cf. Ved. gnā- (frequently disyllable), Sanskrit janis.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gunaikas73×γυνὴ | gunaikais12×γυναῖκες |
| object accusative | gunaikan52×γυναῖκα | gunaikain11×γυναῖκας |
| direct address vocative | gunaikar9×γύναι | gunaikair3×γυναῖκες |
| of, belonging to genitive | gunaikau23×γυναικὸς | gunaikaiu11×γυναικῶν |
| to, for dative | gunaika16×γυναικὶ | gunaikai6×γυναιξίν |
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gunaika is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
216 occurrences, 100 of them printed here — the rest are in the reader
gunaikas“woman”subjectnominative singular73×, 12 shown
Matthew 9:20Kai idou gunaikas haimorroarōntas dōdeka eteim prosercharantas opisthen hapteta …Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for …
Matthew 9:22… su sōzatē sin. kai sōzita tas gunaikas apo tau hōrau ekeinau.… faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that very hour.
Matthew 13:33… basileias toiu ouranoiu zuma, han labarantas gunaikas enkruptata eis aleureu sateim treis heōs …… heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures …
Matthew 15:22kai idou gunaikas Chananaias apo teiu horeiu ekeineiu exercharantas …And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him …
Matthew 22:27husterem de panteiu apothnēskata tas gunaikas.And last of all, the woman died.
Matthew 22:28… anastasia oun tinou toiu hepta eti gunaikas? pantois gar echala autan.In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven …
Matthew 26:7proserchata auto gunaikas echarōntas alabastrem mureu barutimeu kai katachata …a woman came to Him with an alabaster …
Matthew 27:19… teu bēmeu apostelata pros auton tas gunaikas autou legarōntas; Mēdenem si kai to …… sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing …
Mark 5:25kai gunaikas arōntas en rusia haimeu dōdeka eteimAnd a woman was there who had suffered from …
Mark 5:33tas de gunaikas fobirantas kai tremarōntas, oidarēntas hem genatē …Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her …
Mark 7:25alla euthuos akouarantas gunaikas peri autou, hau echate tem thugatriem …Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean …
Mark 7:26tas de gunaikas ate Hellēnidas, Surofoinikissas te gene; kai …Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept …
gunaikan“wife”objectaccusative singular52×, 12 shown
Matthew 1:20… David, mē fobiseia paralabara Marian tan gunaikan su, tem gar en auta gennirantem …… afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her …
Matthew 1:24… tos angelos kuriou kai paralabata tan gunaikan autou;… him and embraced Mary as his wife.
Matthew 5:28… legamō vi hoti pantos tos bleparōntos gunaikan pros tem epithumara autan ēdē moicheuata …… that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already …
Matthew 5:31Legita de; Hos an apoluateia tan gunaikan autou, dōatar auta apostasiem.… also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of …
Matthew 5:32… vi hoti pantos tos apoluarōntos tan gunaikan autou parektos logou porneiau poiatō autan …… you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery …
Matthew 14:3… en fulaka apotitheta dia Hērōdiadan tan gunaikan Filippou tou adelfou autou,… account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
Matthew 18:25… auton tos kurios pipraskira kai tan gunaikan kai teim tekneim kai panteim hoseim …… pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
Matthew 19:3… legarōntois; Ei exestinatō anthrōpo apoluara tan gunaikan autou kata pantan aitian?… for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
Matthew 19:9… vi hoti hos an apoluateia tan gunaikan autou mē epi porneia kai gamateia …… tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries …
Matthew 19:29… adelfain ē patron ē mētēran ē gunaikan ē tekneim ē agroin heneken teu …… sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the …
Matthew 22:24“wife”… tekneim, epigambreuati tos adelfos autou tan gunaikan autou kai anastēati spermem to adelfo …… without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for …
Matthew 22:25… kai mē echarōntos spermem afiēkata tan gunaikan autou to adelfo autou;… having children. So he left his wife to his brother.
gunaikar“woman”direct addressvocative singular9×
Matthew 15:28… apokrinirantos tos Iēsus legata auta; Ō gunaikar, megas su tas pistias; genitar si …“O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great …
Luke 13:12… tos Iēsus prosfōnata kai legata auta; Gunaikar, apoluosē tau astheniau su,… He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your …
Luke 22:57… de arneta legarōntos; Ouk oidamē auton, gunaikar.But Peter denied it. “Woman, I do not know Him,” he …
John 2:4… tos Iēsus; Tinem mi kai si, gunaikar? oupō hēkatō tas hōras mu.“Woman, what is that to you and …
John 4:21legatō auta tos Iēsus; Pisteuasōr mi, gunaikar, hoti erchotō hōras hote oute en …“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming …
John 19:26… parastēarēnton hon agapate legatō ta mētēra; Gunaikar, ide tos huios su;… nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
John 20:13kai legalō auta ekeinois; Gunaikar, tinem klaiasō? legatō autoi hoti Airala …“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked …
John 20:15legatō auta Iēsus; Gunaikar, tinem klaiasō? tinon zētasō? ekeinas dokarōntas …“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked …
1 Corinthians 7:16tinem gar oidasē, gunaikar, ei ton andron sōzasi? ē tinem …How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband …
gunaikau“woman”of, belonging togenitive singular23×, 12 shown
Matthew 19:10… tas aitias tou anthrōpou meta tau gunaikau, ouk sumferatō gamara.… case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”
Luke 3:19… elenchorōntos hupo autou peri Hērōdiadau tau gunaikau tou adelfou autou kai peri panteiu …… Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he …
Luke 17:32mnēmoneuavōr tau gunaikau Lōt.Remember Lot’s wife!
John 4:9… Ioudaios arōntos para mu pinara aitasō gunaikau Samaritiau arōntau? ouk gar sunchrolō Ioudaiois …… a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with …
John 4:27… mathētois autou, kai thaumazale hoti meta gunaikau lalate; oudenos mentoi legata; Tinem zētasō? …… that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What …
John 4:39“woman”… toiu Samaritoiu dia ton logon tau gunaikau marturarōntau hoti Legata mi panteim heim …Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever …
John 8:10… Iēsus kai mēdenon theaserantos plēn tau gunaikau legata auta, pou alō? ekeinois tois …Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers …
Acts 5:2… apo tau timau, sunoidarēntau kai tau gunaikau, kai ferarantos merem tinem para toin …With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some …
Acts 16:1… tinos ate ekei onome Timotheos, huios gunaikau Ioudaiau pistau, patrou de Hellēnou,… the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
1 Corinthians 7:1“woman”Peri de heiu grafava, kalem anthrōpo gunaikau mē haptorō;Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain …
1 Corinthians 7:27… gunaika? mē zētasōr lusian; luosē apo gunaikau? mē zētasōr gunaikan;… commitment? Do not look for a wife.
1 Corinthians 11:3… kefalas tos Christos atō, kefalas de gunaikau tos andros, kefalas de tou Christou …… Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of …
gunaika“wife”to, fordative singular16×, 12 shown
Matthew 19:5… kai tan mētēran kai kolliti ta gunaika autou, kai eli tois duo eis …… mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one …
Matthew 26:10… legata autoi; Tinem kopoin parechavō ta gunaika? ergem gar kalem ergazeta eis min;… asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed …
John 4:42ta tē gunaika legale hoti Ouketi dia tan san …They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because …
Acts 5:1… tinos Hananios onome sun Sapfira ta gunaika autou pōlata ktēmem… man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of …
Acts 24:24… tos Fēlikos sun Drousilla ta idia gunaika arōnta Ioudaia metapempeta ton Paulon kai …… several days, Felix returned with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He …
1 Corinthians 7:3ta gunaika tos andros tan ofeilan apodōatōr, homoiōs …… fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her …
1 Corinthians 7:14… tos andros tos apistos en ta gunaika, kai hagiazotē tas gunaikas tas apistas …… husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified …
1 Corinthians 7:27dosē gunaika? mē zētasōr lusian; luosē apo gunaikau? …Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released …
1 Corinthians 7:33… teim tou kosmou, pōs areskateia ta gunaika,… world, how he can please his wife,
1 Corinthians 11:6… gunaikas, kai keiretar; ei de aischrem gunaika tem keirera ē xurera, katakaluptotōr.… if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or …
1 Corinthians 14:35… idioin androin eperōtalōr, aischrem gar atō gunaika lalarō en ekklēsa.… for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.
Ephesians 5:31… kai tan mētēran kai proskolliti ta gunaika autou, kai eli tois duo eis …… mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one …
gunaikais“women”subjectnominative plural12×
Matthew 27:55Ale de ekei gunaikais pollais apo makrothen theōrarōntais, hotinais akolouthala …And many women were there, watching from a distance …
Mark 15:40Ale de kai gunaikais apo makrothen theōrarōntais, en hai kai …And there were also women watching from a distance. Among them …
Luke 8:2kai gunaikais tinais hais ale therapeuorēntais apo pneumeiu …as well as some women who had been healed of evil …
Luke 23:49… pantois tois gnōstois auto makrothen, kai gunaikais tais sunakoloutharōntais auto apo tau Galilaiau, …… those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee …
Luke 23:55katakoloutharantais de tais gunaikais, hotinais ale sunercharēntais ek tau Galilaiau …The women who had come with Jesus from …
Luke 24:22alla kai gunaikais tinais ek nu ekstēala nin, generantais …Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the …
Luke 24:24… kai heuriskala houtōs kathōs kai tais gunaikais legala, auton de ouk horala.… and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did …
Acts 8:12… Iēsu Christou, baptizole androis tē kai gunaikais.… they were baptized, both men and women.
1 Corinthians 14:34Tais gunaikais en tai ekklēsai sigalōr, ouk gar …Women are to be silent in the …
Ephesians 5:24… hupotassotō to Christo, houtōs kai tais gunaikais toi androi en pante.… church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in …
Hebrews 11:35labala gunaikais ek anastasiau toin nekroin autaiu; allosois …Women received back their dead, raised to …
1 Peter 3:5houtōs gar pote kai tais hagiais gunaikais tais elpizarōntais eis theon kosmale heautain, …For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They …
gunaikain“wives”objectaccusative plural11×
Matthew 19:8… sklērokardian vu epitrepata vi apoluara tain gunaikain vu, apo archau de ouk genatē …… Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart …
Acts 8:3… oikoin eisporeuorōntos, surarōntos tē androin kai gunaikain paradōate eis fulakan.… house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
Acts 9:2… tau hodau arōntoin, androin tē kai gunaikain, dorēntoin agateia eis Ierousalēm.… if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could …
Acts 13:50tois de Ioudaiois parotrunala tain seborōntain gunaikain tain euschēmōnain kai toin prōtoin tau …The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men …
Acts 22:4… paradōarōntos eis fulakain androin tē kai gunaikain,… the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
1 Corinthians 7:29… tem loipem hina kai tois echarōntois gunaikain hōs mē echarōntois aleiō,… From now on those who have wives should live as if they had …
Ephesians 5:25Tois androir, agapavōr tain gunaikain, kathōs kai tos Christos agapata tan …Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church …
Ephesians 5:28… kai tois androis agaparō tain heautoiu gunaikain hōs teim heautoiu sōmeim; tos agaparōntos …… way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who …
Colossians 3:19tois androir, agapavōr tain gunaikain kai mē pikranovōr pros autain.Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with …
1 Timothy 2:9hōsautōs kai gunaikain en katastola kosmia meta aidōau kai …Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel …
1 Timothy 3:11“wives”gunaikain hōsautōs semnain, mē diabolain, nēfaliain, pistain …… must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all …
gunaikair“wives”direct addressvocative plural3×
Ephesians 5:22Tais gunaikair toi idioi androi hōs to kurio,Wives, submit to your husbands as to …
Colossians 3:18Tais gunaikair, hupotassovōr toi androi, hōs anēkate en …Wives, submit to your husbands, as is …
1 Peter 3:1Homoiōs gunaikair hupotassorōntais toi idioi androi, hina kai …Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves …
gunaikaiu“women”of, belonging togenitive plural11×
Matthew 11:11… legamō vi, ouk egerotē en gennētoi gunaikaiu megoteros Iōannou tou baptistou; tos de …… tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater …
Matthew 14:21… esthiarōntois ale androis hōsei pentakischilioi chōris gunaikaiu kai paidieiu.… five thousand men were fed, besides women and children.
Matthew 15:38… de esthiarōntois ale tetrakischilioi androis chōris gunaikaiu kai paidieiu.… four thousand men were fed, besides women and children.
Luke 7:28legamō vi, megoteros en gennētoi gunaikaiu Iōannou oudenos atō; tos de mikroteros …… tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than …
Luke 23:27… auto pollem plēthem tou laou kai gunaikaiu hais koptole kai thrēnale auton.… number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for …
Acts 5:14… to kurio plētheim androiu tē kai gunaikaiu;… large numbers of both men and women.
Acts 17:4… toiu tē seborōntoiu Hellēnoiu plēthem pollem gunaikaiu tē taiu prōtaiu ouk oligais.… Greeks and quite a few leading women.
Acts 17:12… ek autoiu pisteuala, kai taiu Hellēnidaiu gunaikaiu taiu euschēmōnaiu kai androiu ouk oligois.… with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
1 Peter 3:1… apeithalō to logo dia tau taiu gunaikaiu anastrofau aneu logou kerdainili… words by the behavior of their wives
Revelation 9:8“women’s”kai echale trichain hōs trichain gunaikaiu, kai tois odontois autaiu hōs leontoiu …They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
Revelation 14:4houtois alō hois meta gunaikaiu ouk molunila, parthenois gar alō; houtois …… who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow …
gunaikai“women”to, fordative plural6×
Matthew 28:5apokrinirantos de tos angelos legata tai gunaikai; Mē fobovōr vis, oidamē gar hoti …But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I …
Luke 1:42… mega kai legata; Eulogorēntas sis en gunaikai, kai eulogorēntos tos karpos tau koiliau …… she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of …
Acts 1:14… ale proskarterarōntois homothumadōs ta proseucha sun gunaikai kai Mariam ta mētēra tou Iēsu …… continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus …
Acts 16:13… arō, kai kathizarantois lalane tai sunercharantai gunaikai.… sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.
Acts 21:5… exercharantois poreuone propemparōntoiu nin pantoiu sun gunaikai kai teknei heōs exō tau polau, …… journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of …
1 Timothy 2:10alla hem prepatō gunaikai epangelorōntai theosebeian, dia ergeiu agatheiu.… good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.