Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
2 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “wife” →
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD .
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
