אִישׁ

hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,684 occurrences38 books1,449 verses
This word comes from the name of Tob.

Definition

contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Traditional renderings: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אִישׁ:

Glossary entries

Tob Ishtob

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,684 total
  1. Joshua 24:28אִ֖ישׁ · each
    Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
  2. Judges 1:4אִֽישׁ׃ · men
    When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
  3. Judges 1:24אִ֖ישׁ · a man
    …and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”
  4. Judges 1:25הָאִ֥ישׁ · that man
    So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.
  5. Judges 1:26הָאִ֔ישׁ · And the man
    And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
  6. Judges 2:6אִ֥ישׁ · each
    After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
  7. Judges 2:21אִ֖ישׁ · any
    I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
  8. Judges 3:15אִ֥ישׁ
    And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
  9. Judges 3:17אִ֥ישׁ · man
    …and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.
  10. Judges 3:28אִ֖ישׁ · anyone
    “Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and they did not allow anyone to cross over.
  11. Judges 3:29אִ֔ישׁ · men; אִ֣ישׁ · one; אִֽישׁ׃
    At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.
  12. Judges 3:31אִ֔ישׁ
    After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
  13. Judges 4:6אִ֔ישׁ · men
    She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
  14. Judges 4:10אִ֑ישׁ · men
    …where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.
  15. Judges 4:14אִ֖ישׁ · men
    Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
  16. Judges 4:20אִ֨ישׁ · anyone; אִ֖ישׁ · a man
    “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’”
  17. Judges 4:22הָאִ֖ישׁ · the man
    When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
  18. Judges 6:8אִ֥ישׁ
    He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  19. Judges 6:16כְּאִ֥ישׁ · man
    “Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”
  20. Judges 6:29אִ֣ישׁ · one
    “Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”
  21. Judges 7:6אִ֑ישׁ · men
    And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
  22. Judges 7:7הָאִ֤ישׁ · men; אִ֥ישׁ
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
  23. Judges 7:8אִ֤ישׁ · the Israelites; אִ֣ישׁ; הָאִ֖ישׁ · men
    So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
  24. Judges 7:13אִ֔ישׁ · a man
    And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
  25. Judges 7:14אִ֣ישׁ · the Israelite
    His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”
  26. Judges 7:16הָאִ֖ישׁ · men
    And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.
  27. Judges 7:19אִ֨ישׁ · men
    Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
  28. Judges 7:21אִ֣ישׁ · Each [Israelite]
    Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, crying out as they ran.
  29. Judges 7:22אִ֛ישׁ · all the men
    And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
  30. Judges 7:23אִֽישׁ־ · Then the men
    Then the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.
  31. Judges 7:24אִ֤ישׁ · the men
    Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.
  32. Judges 8:1אִ֣ישׁ · Then the men
    Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.
  33. Judges 8:4הָאִישׁ֙ · men
    Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
  34. Judges 8:10אִ֖ישׁ · swordsmen
    Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
  35. Judges 8:14אִֽישׁ׃
    There he captured a young man of Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven leaders and elders of Succoth.
  36. Judges 8:21כָאִ֖ישׁ · as the man is
    Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.
  37. Judges 8:22אִֽישׁ־ · Then the Israelites
    Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
  38. Judges 8:24אִ֖ישׁ · that each of you
    Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
  39. Judges 8:25אִ֖ישׁ · and each man
    “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
  40. Judges 9:2אִ֗ישׁ · men; אִ֣ישׁ · man
    “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
  41. Judges 9:5אִ֖ישׁ
    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
  42. Judges 9:18אִ֖ישׁ
    …but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
  43. Judges 9:49אִ֣ישׁ · man
    So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.