Dict: easton - Woman

Woman @ was "taken out of man" kjv@Genesis:2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" ( kjv@1Corinthians:11:3 kjv@1Corinthians:11:8, 9; kjv@1Peter:3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam kjv@Exodus:15:20), Deborah kjv@Judges:4:4-5), Huldah ( kjv@2Kings:22:14), Noadiah kjv@Nehemiah:6:14), Anna kjv@Luke:2:36-37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist kjv@Acts:21:8-9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly ( kjv@1Corinthians:14:34-35; kjv@1Timothy:2:11-12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household kjv@Genesis:18:6; kjv@2Samuel:13:8), to attend to the work of spinning kjv@Exodus:35:26; kjv@Proverbs:31:19), and making clothes ( kjv@1Samuel:2:19; kjv@Proverbs:31:21), to bring water from the well kjv@Genesis:24:15; kjv@1Samuel:9:11), and to care for the flocks kjv@Genesis:29:6; kjv@Exodus:2:16). The word "woman," as used in kjv@Matthew:15:28, kjv@John:2:4 and 20:13-15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.