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).
92 verses where H376 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Numbers. 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.
Numbers
- Numbers 1:4 אִ֥ישׁ אִ֖ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ n c ms n c ms n c ms With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
- Numbers 1:5 הָֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- Numbers 1:17 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
- Numbers 1:44 אִ֑ישׁ אִישׁ n c ms n c ms These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
- Numbers 1:52 אִ֧ישׁ וְ/אִ֥ישׁ n c ms conj + n c ms The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
- Numbers 2:2 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the tent of meeting shall they encamp around it."
- Numbers 2:17 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
- Numbers 2:34 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
- Numbers 4:19 אִ֥ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ n c ms n c ms but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;
- Numbers 4:49 אִ֥ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ n c ms n c ms According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 5:6 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms "Speak to the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;
- Numbers 5:8 לָ/אִ֜ישׁ prep det + n c ms But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
- Numbers 5:10 וְ/אִ֥ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ conj + n c ms n c ms Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his."
- Numbers 5:12 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ n c ms n c ms "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,
- Numbers 5:13 אִ֣ישׁ אִישָׁ֔/הּ n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
- Numbers 5:15 הָ/אִ֣ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
- Numbers 5:19 אִישׁ֙ אִישֵׁ֑/ךְ n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:20 אִישֵׁ֖/ךְ אִ֥ישׁ אִישֵֽׁ/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:'
- Numbers 5:30 אִ֗ישׁ n c ms or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
- Numbers 5:31 הָ/אִ֖ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity."
- Numbers 6:2 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
- Numbers 7:5 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."
- Numbers 9:6 אֲנָשִׁ֗ים n c mp There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
- Numbers 9:7 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"
- Numbers 9:10 אִ֣ישׁ אִ֣ישׁ n c ms n c ms "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
- Numbers 9:13 וְ/הָ/אִישׁ֩ הָ/אִ֥ישׁ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 11:10 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
- Numbers 11:16 אִישׁ֮ n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:24 אִישׁ֙ n c ms Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
- Numbers 11:25 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Numbers 11:26 אֲנָשִׁ֣ים n c mp But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
- Numbers 12:3 וְ/הָ/אִ֥ישׁ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 13:2 אֲנָשִׁ֗ים אִ֣ישׁ אִ֨ישׁ n c mp n c ms n c ms Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.
- Numbers 13:3 אֲנָשִׁ֔ים n c mp Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 13:16 הָֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Numbers 13:31 וְ/הָ֨/אֲנָשִׁ֜ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
- Numbers 14:4 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- Numbers 14:15 כְּ/אִ֣ישׁ prep + n c ms Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
- Numbers 14:22 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c mp because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Numbers 14:36 וְ/הָ֣/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- Numbers 14:37 הָֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
- Numbers 14:38 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
- Numbers 15:32 אִ֛ישׁ n c ms While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
- Numbers 15:35 הָ/אִ֑ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.
- Numbers 16:2 וַ/אֲנָשִׁ֥ים אַנְשֵׁי conj + n c mp n c mp cs and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
- Numbers 16:7 הָ/אִ֛ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.
- Numbers 16:14 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we won't come up.
- Numbers 16:17 אִ֣ישׁ אִ֣ישׁ אִ֥ישׁ n c ms n c ms n c ms and take every man his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.
- Numbers 16:18 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms They took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
- Numbers 16:22 הָ/אִ֤ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
- Numbers 16:26 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
- Numbers 16:30 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c mp But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:35 אִ֔ישׁ n c ms Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
- Numbers 16:40 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 17:2 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's name on his rod.
- Numbers 17:5 הָ/אִ֛ישׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 17:9 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
- Numbers 19:9 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
- Numbers 19:18 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
- Numbers 19:20 וְ/אִ֤ישׁ conj + n c ms But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
- Numbers 21:9 אִ֔ישׁ n c ms Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
- Numbers 22:9 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c mp God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
- Numbers 22:20 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.
- Numbers 22:35 הָ֣/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
- Numbers 23:19 אִ֥ישׁ n c ms God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Numbers 25:5 אִ֣ישׁ אֲנָשָׁ֔י/ו n c ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.
- Numbers 25:6 אִישׁ֩ n c ms Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 26:10 אִ֔ישׁ n c ms and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 26:54 אִ֚ישׁ n c ms To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.
- Numbers 26:64 אִ֔ישׁ n c ms But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 26:65 אִ֔ישׁ n c ms For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 27:8 אִ֣ישׁ n c ms You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
- Numbers 27:16 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
- Numbers 27:18 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
- Numbers 30:2 אִישׁ֩ n c ms When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
- Numbers 30:6 לְ/אִ֔ישׁ prep + n c ms If she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,
- Numbers 30:16 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
- Numbers 31:3 אֲנָשִׁ֖ים n c mp Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
- Numbers 31:17 אִ֛ישׁ n c ms Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
- Numbers 31:42 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred
- Numbers 31:49 אַנְשֵׁ֥י אִֽישׁ n c mp cs n c ms and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
- Numbers 31:50 אִישׁ֩ n c ms We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
- Numbers 31:53 אַנְשֵׁי֙ אִ֥ישׁ n c mp cs n c ms ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
- Numbers 32:11 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֜ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
- Numbers 32:14 אֲנָשִׁ֣ים n c mp Behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
- Numbers 32:18 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
- Numbers 34:17 הָֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 34:19 הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c mp These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- Numbers 35:8 אִ֗ישׁ n c ms Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
- Numbers 36:7 אִ֗ישׁ n c ms So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
- Numbers 36:8 אִ֖ישׁ n c ms Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
- Numbers 36:9 אִישׁ֙ n c ms So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.
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
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