Spouse

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.

(2): (n.) To wed; to espouse.

(3): (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

King James Dictionary

SPOUSE, n. L., to engage. One engaged or joined in wedlock a married person, husband or wife. We say of a man, that he is the spouse of such a woman or of a woman, she is the spouse of such a man.

SPOUSE, To wed to espouse. Little used. See Espouse.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Spouse. See Marriage.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Song of Solomon 4:8-12Hosea 4:13,14

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(כִּלָּה, kallah, crowned with the bridal chaplet, Song of Solomon 4:8-12; Song of Solomon 5:1; Hosea 4:13-14; "bride," Isaiah 49:18; Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 62:5; Jeremiah 2:32; Jeremiah 7:34, etc.; Joel 2:16, elsewhere "daughter-in-law"). (See Marriage).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

spouz ( כּלּה , kallāh , "bride," "daughter-in-law"): the Revised Version (British and American) gives "bride" for the King James Version "spouse" in Song of Solomon 4:8 ff, and "brides" for "spouses" in Hosea 4:13 f (margin "daughters-in-law"). See Espousal; Marriage; Relationships , Family .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

[MARRIAGE]