wife
The "Lamb's wife" here is the "bride", (Revelation 21:9), the Church, identified with the "heavenly Jerusalem", (Hebrews 12:22); (Hebrews 12:23), and to be distinguished from Israel, the adulterous and repudiated "wife" of Jehovah, yet to be restored; (Isaiah 54:1-10); (Hosea 2:1-17); who is identified with the earth (Hosea 2:23). A forgiven and restored wife could not be called either a virgin (2 Corinthians 11:2); (2 Corinthians 11:3) or a bride.