married woman / wife
Figuratively: a married woman.
("And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death"—Leviticus 20:10; and: "Rabbi Gershon of Kituv, who saw in himself the sin of the prohibition of a married woman, and because of this was startled and trembled"—S.Y. Agnon / Stories of the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Gershon of Kituv, Compensations; and: "My Penelope, married woman, listens in the distance to the roar of the waters"—Nathan Yonatan / For Him We Shall Live in the Melancholy Song; and: "No married woman inclines her ear to the flood of his words—yet his mumbling in his sleep wins great attention"—Chananya Reichman / Proverbs and Epigrams, Between Him and Her)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ
Definition (Hebrew)
בִּמְלִיצָה: אִשָּׁה נְשׂוּאָה.
("וְאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִנְאַף אֶת אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִנְאַף אֶת אֵשֶׁת רֵעֵהוּ מוֹת, יוּמַת הַנֹּאֵף וְהַנֹּאָפֶת"- וַיִּקְרָא כ י, וְכֵן:"ר' גֵּרְשׁוֹן מִקִּטּוּב שֶׁרוֹאֶה עָלָיו חֵטְא אִסּוּר אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ וּבַעֲבוּר זֶה הָיָה נִבְהַל וְנִרְעַד"- שַׁ"י עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט, ר' גֵּרְשׁוֹן מִקִּטּוּב, שִׁלּוּמִים, וְכֵן:"פֵּנֶלוֹפֶּה שֶׁלִּי, אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ, מַקְשִׁיבָה בְּמֶרְחַק גַּעַשׁ מַיִם"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ לוֹ נִחְיֶה בַּשִּׁירָה הַנּוּגָה, וְכֵן:"אֵין אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ מַטָּה אָזְנָה/ לְשֶׁטֶף דִּבּוּרָיו-/ אַךְ מִלְמוּלוֹ מִתּוֹךְ שֵׁנָה/ זוֹכֶה לְקֶשֶׁב רַב"- חֲנַנְיָה רַיְכְמָן/ פִּתְגָּמִים וּמִכְתָּמִים, בֵּינוֹ לְבֵינָהּ)