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. Judges 9:49אִ֥ישׁ · men
    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.
  2. Judges 9:55אִֽישׁ־ · And when the Israelites; אִ֥ישׁ · they all
    And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
  3. Judges 10:1אִ֣ישׁ · a man
    After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
  4. Judges 10:18אִ֣ישׁ · one; הָאִ֔ישׁ
    And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
  5. Judges 11:39אִ֔ישׁ · with a man
    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
  6. Judges 12:1אִ֣ישׁ · Then the men
    Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
  7. Judges 12:2אִ֣ישׁ
    But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.
  8. Judges 13:2אִ֨ישׁ · man
    Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
  9. Judges 13:6לְאִישָׁהּ֮ · her husband; אִ֤ישׁ · A man
    So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
  10. Judges 13:8אִ֣ישׁ · let the man
    Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
  11. Judges 13:9אִישָׁ֖הּ · but her husband
    And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
  12. Judges 13:10לְאִישָׁ֑הּ · The woman; הָאִ֔ישׁ · the man
    The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
  13. Judges 13:11הָאִ֔ישׁ · the man; הָאִ֛ישׁ · the man
    So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
  14. Judges 14:15אִישֵׁ֗ךְ · your husband
    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
  15. Judges 14:19אִ֗ישׁ · of their men
    Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
  16. Judges 15:10אִ֣ישׁ · the men
    “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
  17. Judges 15:11אִ֜ישׁ · men
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  18. Judges 15:15אִֽישׁ׃ · men
    He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
  19. Judges 15:16אִֽישׁ׃ · men
    Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
  20. Judges 16:5אִ֕ישׁ · Then each one
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  21. Judges 16:19לָאִ֔ישׁ · a man
    And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
  22. Judges 16:27אִ֣ישׁ · men
    Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
  23. Judges 17:1אִ֥ישׁ · a man
    Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
  24. Judges 17:5וְהָאִ֣ישׁ · Now this man
    Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
  25. Judges 17:6אִ֛ישׁ · everyone
    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  26. Judges 17:8הָאִ֜ישׁ · This man
    This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
  27. Judges 17:11הָאִ֑ישׁ · [him]
    …and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.
  28. Judges 18:11אִ֔ישׁ
    So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
  29. Judges 18:16אִ֗ישׁ
    The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
  30. Judges 18:17הָאִ֔ישׁ · men
    And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
  31. Judges 18:19אִ֣ישׁ · person
    “Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
  32. Judges 19:1אִ֣ישׁ
    Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
  33. Judges 19:3אִישָׁ֜הּ · her husband
    …her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
  34. Judges 19:6הָאִ֔ישׁ · the man
    So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
  35. Judges 19:7הָאִ֖ישׁ · The man
    The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
  36. Judges 19:9הָאִישׁ֙ · When the man
    When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
  37. Judges 19:10הָאִישׁ֙ · But the man
    But the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
  38. Judges 19:15אִ֛ישׁ · one
    They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.
  39. Judges 19:16אִ֣ישׁ · man; וְהָאִישׁ֙
    That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
  40. Judges 19:17הָאִ֥ישׁ; הָאִ֧ישׁ · man
    When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
  41. Judges 19:18אִ֔ישׁ · one
    The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,
  42. Judges 19:20הָאִ֤ישׁ · man
    “Peace to you,” said the old man. “Let me supply everything you need. Only do not spend the night in the square.”
  43. Judges 19:22הָ֠אִישׁ · man
    While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”