The meaning of “אִשָּׁה”

“And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.”

“And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.”

“And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.”

“Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”

“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”