אִישׁ
man
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
72 verses where H376 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Leviticus. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 7:8 אִ֑ישׁ n c ms The priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
- Leviticus 7:10 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
- Leviticus 10:1 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Leviticus 13:29 וְ/אִישׁ֙ conj + n c ms "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
- Leviticus 13:38 וְ/אִישׁ֙ conj + n c ms "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;
- Leviticus 13:40 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
- Leviticus 14:11 הָ/אִ֥ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 15:2 אִ֣ישׁ אִ֗ישׁ n c ms n c ms "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:5 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:16 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:18 אִ֛ישׁ n c ms If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:24 אִ֜ישׁ n c ms "'If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:33 וּ/לְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + prep + n c ms and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.
- Leviticus 16:21 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
- Leviticus 17:3 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ n c ms n c ms Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,
- Leviticus 17:4 לָ/אִ֤ישׁ הָ/אִ֥ישׁ prep det + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
- Leviticus 17:8 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ n c ms n c ms "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
- Leviticus 17:9 הָ/אִ֥ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms and doesn't bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 17:10 וְ/אִ֨ישׁ אִ֜ישׁ conj + n c ms n c ms "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 17:13 וְ/אִ֨ישׁ אִ֜ישׁ conj + n c ms n c ms "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
- Leviticus 18:6 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ n c ms n c ms "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:3 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 19:11 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms "'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
- Leviticus 19:20 וְ֠/אִישׁ לְ/אִ֔ישׁ conj + n c ms prep + n c ms "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 20:2 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ֩ n c ms n c ms "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:3 בָּ/אִ֣ישׁ prep det + n c ms I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
- Leviticus 20:4 הָ/אִ֣ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;
- Leviticus 20:5 בָּ/אִ֥ישׁ prep det + n c ms then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:9 אִ֣ישׁ אִ֗ישׁ n c ms n c ms "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Leviticus 20:10 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ אִ֔ישׁ conj + n c ms n c ms "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:11 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:12 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:13 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:14 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
- Leviticus 20:15 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
- Leviticus 20:17 וְ/אִ֣ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 20:18 וְ֠/אִישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:20 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
- Leviticus 20:21 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
- Leviticus 20:27 וְ/אִ֣ישׁ conj + n c ms "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"
- Leviticus 21:3 לְ/אִ֑ישׁ prep + n c ms and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
- Leviticus 21:17 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
- Leviticus 21:18 אִ֛ישׁ אִ֤ישׁ n c ms n c ms For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
- Leviticus 21:19 אִ֔ישׁ n c ms or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
- Leviticus 21:21 אִ֞ישׁ n c ms no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
- Leviticus 22:3 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 22:4 אִ֣ישׁ אִ֞ישׁ אִ֔ישׁ n c ms n c ms n c ms "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
- Leviticus 22:5 אִישׁ֙ n c ms or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;
- Leviticus 22:12 לְ/אִ֣ישׁ prep + n c ms If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
- Leviticus 22:14 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
- Leviticus 22:18 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ֩ n c ms n c ms "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;
- Leviticus 22:21 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
- Leviticus 24:10 אִ֣ישׁ וְ/אִ֖ישׁ n c ms conj + n c ms cs The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
- Leviticus 24:15 אִ֥ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ n c ms n c ms You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
- Leviticus 24:17 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:19 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
- Leviticus 25:10 אִ֚ישׁ וְ/אִ֥ישׁ n c ms conj + n c ms You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Leviticus 25:13 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
- Leviticus 25:14 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
- Leviticus 25:17 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 25:26 וְ/אִ֕ישׁ conj + n c ms If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;
- Leviticus 25:27 לָ/אִ֖ישׁ prep det + n c ms then let him reckon the years since the sale of it, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
- Leviticus 25:29 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
- Leviticus 25:46 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
- Leviticus 26:37 אִישׁ n c ms They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
- Leviticus 27:2 אִ֕ישׁ n c ms "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation.
- Leviticus 27:14 וְ/אִ֗ישׁ conj + n c ms "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.
- Leviticus 27:16 אִישׁ֙ n c ms "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
- Leviticus 27:20 לְ/אִ֣ישׁ prep + n c ms If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
- Leviticus 27:26 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.
- Leviticus 27:28 אִ֨ישׁ n c ms "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 27:31 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, איש (ʼîysh) means “man.” The King James Version also renders it “every man,” a usage modern versions have dropped for “man” — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 1,851 verses in 38 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 2:23. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H376 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1,851
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,851 distinct verses.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #19
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 19 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1,851 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1,851 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1,006 verses · 54%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 477 verses · 26%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 368 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Man 560×, Men 175×, Every man 154×
- American Standard Version: Man 521×, Men 165×, Every man 146×
- Berean Standard Bible: Man 556×, Men 188×, Each 97×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Man 921×, Men 425×, Men of 210×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H376 across 1,623 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 221 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 16 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H376 across 1,625 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 297 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H376 across 1,396 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 132 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 266 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H376 across 2,256 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 79 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- man
- whosoever
- each (adjective)
Word origin
n.m. man (= vir) (MI, SI, Ph. אש, perh. also Sab. אסם cf. Prät l.c., but DHMZMG 1883, 330)—א׳ abs. Gn 2:23 +; cstr. Gn 25:27 +; sf. אִישִׁי Gn 29:32 +, etc.; pl. אִישִׁים ψ 141:4 + 2 textual (Ph. אשם); usually אֲנָשִׁים Gn 12:20 +, fr. √ אנשׁ q.v.; cstr. אַנְשֵׁי Ju 6:27 +; sf. אֲנָשַׁי 1 S 23:12 etc.;—man, opp. woman Gn 2:23, 24 Lv 20:27 Nu 5:6 Dt 17:2f Jos 6:21; 8:25 Je 40:7, emph. on sexual distinction & relation Gn 19:8; 24:16; 38:25 Ex 22:15 Lv 15:16 (שִׁכְבַת זָ֑רַע) v 18 (וְאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ שׁ׳־ז׳) 20:10f Nu 5:13f Dt 22:22f Is 4:1 +; thence = husband, especially c. sf. Gn 3:6, 16; 16:3; 29:32, 34 Lv 21:7 Nu 30:7f Dt 28:56 Ju 13:6f Ru 1:3f 1 S 25:19 Je 29:6 Ez 16:45 +; fig. of י׳ as husb. of Isr. אִישִׁי Ho 2:18 (opp. בַּעְלִי); man as procreator, father Ec 6:3; of male child Gn 4:1 cf. זֶרַע אֲנָשִׁים 1 S 1:11, man, opp. beast Ex 11:7 Lv 20:15 (cf. אָדָם); cf. fig. ψ 22:7 but also of male of animals Gn 7:2(×2) (אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֹ); man, opp. God Gn 32:29 Nu 23:19 לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִיכַזֵּב (‖ וּבֶן־אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם); Jb 9:32; 32:13 Ho 11:9 cf. Is 31:8 Jb 12:10 (רוּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר־אִישׁ); hence in phrases to denote ordinary, customary, common שֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים 2 S 7:14 (‖ נִגְעֵי בְּנֵי אָדָם); לֶחֶם אֲנָשִׁים Ez 24:17, 22 (cf. Is 8:1); אֲנָשִׁים Ez 24:17, 22 is textual error; We (ap. Sm) אֲנֻשִׁים; ToyHpt אוֹנִים (Ho 9:4). אַמַּת־אִישׁ Dt 3:11; but also contr. אָדָם ψ 49:3; 62:10; man, as valiant 1 S 4:9(×2) (וִהְיוּ לַאֲנָשִׁים) so 1 K 2:2 cf. 1 S 26:15; so אִישׁ חַיִל 31:12 2 S 24:9 1 K 1:42 +; also אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה Nu 31:49 Dt 2:14, 16 Jos 5:4, 6 +; even of י׳ Ex 15:3 יהוה אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה; oft. prefixed to other nouns in app. הא׳ אָדוֹן Gn 42:30, 33, א׳ שַׂר וְשֹׁפֵט Ex 2:14, א׳ כֹּהֵן Lv 21:9, א׳ סָרִיס Je 38:7; partic. bef. adj. gent. אִישׁ מִצְרִי Gn 39:1 Ex 2:11, 19 cf. Gn 37:28; 38:1, 2; 39:14 1 S 17:12; 30:11, 13 +; a man as resident in, or belonging to a place or people Nu 25:6 Ju 10:1 + (so Ph.); usually pl. אַנְשֵׁי יִשְׂרָאֵל 1 S 7:11; 31:7(×2) cf. Jos 7:4, 5 +; also sg. coll. Dt 27:14 Jos 9:6, 7 Ju 20:11 1 S 11:8 (v. Dr) +; 2 S 10:6, 8 (א׳ טוֹב); (so MI 10. 13); men = retainers, followers, soldiers 1 S 18:27; 23:3f; 24:3; 25:13 + cf. Dt 33:8 sg. coll. v. Di; אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים man of God = proph. Dt 33:1 Jos 14:6 1 S 9:6f 1 K 12:22; 13:1f + (v. אלהים); in phrase sq. abstr. v. supr.; א׳ רִיב Ju 12:2 Je 15:10, א׳ שֵׂיבָה Dt 32:25, א׳ הַדָּמִים 2 S 16:7 cf. v. 8, א׳ הַבְּלִיַּעַל 2 S 16:7, א׳ מָוֶת 1 K 2:26, א׳ חָמָס ψ 140:12 Pr 3:31 +; sq. word of occupation, etc. א׳ שָׂדֶה Gn 25:27, א׳ הָאֲדָמָה Gn 9:20 (cf. Zc 13:5), א׳ הַבֵּנַיִם champion 1 S 17:4 (cf. Dr) v 23, א׳ בְּשֹׂרָה 2 S 18:20, אִישׁ עֲצָתוֹ his counsellor Is 40:13, cf. אִישׁ חֶרְמִי 1 K 20:42, א׳ רֵעִים Pr 18:24; oft. distrib. = each, every Gn 9:5; 10:5; 40:5(×2) Ex 12:3 +; incl. women Jb 42:11 1 Ch 16:3 וַיְחַלֵּק לְכָל־אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאִישׁ וְעַד אִשָּׁה לְאִישׁ כִּכַּר־לֶחֶם; of inanim. things 1 K 7:30, 36; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Ex 36:4 Nu 4:19, 49 Ez 14:4, 7 +; any one Ex 34:3(×2), 24 +; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Lv 15:2; 22:4, 18 +; of gods 2 K 18:33 = Is 36:18; one … another וְהִרְגוּ אִישׁ־אֶת־אָחִיו וְאִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ וְאִישׁ אֶת־קְרֹבוֹ Ex 32:27, אִישׁ … אָחִיו Dt 1:16 Mi 7:2 (v. אָח), אִישׁ … רֵעֵהוּ Gn 11:3, 7 + (v. רֵעַ) of inanimate things Gn 15:10.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אנוש (ʼĕnôwsh) (H582) — man.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אִישׁ
- , v. אֱינָשׁ) being, man; husband; lord.—א׳ ירושלים a native or citizen of Jerusalem Aboth I, 4; a. fr.—Yoma I, 7 אִישִׁי כה"ג my lord the High-priest. Sot. 17ᵃ א׳ ואשה husband and wife; a. fr.—Pl. אֲנָשִׁים, v. אֱנוֹשׁ.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 285 distinct written forms H376 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 225 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H376, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
- איש ʼîysh H377 to be a man
- אישון ʼîyshôwn H380 pupil
- אישחיל ʼÎysh-Chayil H381 a mighty man, valiant man
- אשה ʼishshâh H802 woman
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אנוש ʼĔnôwsh H583 Enos
- אישבשת ʼÎysh-Bôsheth H378 Ishbosheth
- אישהוד ʼÎyshᵉhôwd H379 Ishod
- אישטוב ʼÎysh-Ṭôwb H382 Ish-tob
- אשבעל ʼEshbaʻal H792 Eshbaal
- בןימיני Ben-yᵉmîynîy H1145 Benjamite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1,751 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1,851 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:23
- Exodus 1:1
- Leviticus 7:8
- Numbers 1:4
- Deuteronomy 1:13
- Joshua 1:5
- Judges 1:4
- Ruth 1:1
- 1 Samuel 1:1
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 1:5
- 2 Kings 1:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
