woman
gune denotes a female person, often identifying a wife within marriage and household relationships.
The term most often identifies a female spouse in statements about marriage, husbands, and household obligations. It also refers more broadly to women individually or collectively, including women who gather, believe, learn, pray, or receive instruction.
Senses in use
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Female spouse in marriage or household · dominant
In 1 Corinthians 7:27, the singular noun occurs in questions about being bound to, free from, or seeking a spouse; the APB renders the clause “Are you bound to a wife?” In Ephesians 5:33, the terms occur within reciprocal instructions for a man to love his own spouse and for her to respect her husband; Acts 18:2 identifies Priscilla in relation to Aquila.
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Women as female persons or groups · common
The noun names women apart from an explicit marital relation: in Acts 16:13, women have gathered by a place of prayer, and in Acts 17:34 a woman named Damaris is among those who believed. In 1 Timothy 2:9, the plural occurs in instruction about respectable attire, while 1 Corinthians 11:5 places a singular woman in the acts of praying or prophesying.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the term as “wife” where a husband, marriage, or household relationship is in view, and as “woman” or “women” in broader references to female persons. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those English choices are read from the clauses rather than treated as fixed equivalents.