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 21:12אִ֖ישׁ
    So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
  2. Judges 21:21אִ֥ישׁ · each of you
    …and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
  3. Judges 21:22אִ֥ישׁ · for each of them
    When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
  4. Judges 21:24אִ֥ישׁ · each; אִ֖ישׁ · each
    And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
  5. Judges 21:25אִ֛ישׁ · everyone
    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  6. Ruth 1:1אִ֜ישׁ · And a certain man
    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
  7. Ruth 1:2הָאִ֣ישׁ · The man’s
    The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
  8. Ruth 1:3אִ֣ישׁ · husband
    Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
  9. Ruth 1:5וּמֵאִישָֽׁהּ׃ · and without her husband
    …both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
  10. Ruth 1:9אִישָׁ֑הּ · of your new husband
    May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
  11. Ruth 1:12לְאִ֑ישׁ · another husband; לְאִ֔ישׁ · a husband
    Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
  12. Ruth 1:13לְאִ֑ישׁ · husbands
    …would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
  13. Ruth 2:1לְאִישָׁ֗הּ · on her husband’s side; אִ֚ישׁ · man
    Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
  14. Ruth 2:11אִישֵׁ֑ךְ · of your husband
    Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
  15. Ruth 2:19הָאִישׁ֙ · of the man
    Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
  16. Ruth 2:20הָאִ֔ישׁ · The man
    Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
  17. Ruth 3:3לָאִ֔ישׁ · let the man
    Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
  18. Ruth 3:8הָאִ֖ישׁ · Boaz
    At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
  19. Ruth 3:14אִ֖ישׁ · anyone
    So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
  20. Ruth 3:16הָאִֽישׁ׃ · [Boaz]
    When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.
  21. Ruth 3:18הָאִ֔ישׁ · he
    “Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
  22. Ruth 4:7אִ֛ישׁ · a man
    Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.
  23. 1 Samuel 1:1אִ֨ישׁ · man
    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
  24. 1 Samuel 1:3הָאִ֨ישׁ
    Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
  25. 1 Samuel 1:8אִישָׁ֗הּ · her husband
    “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
  26. 1 Samuel 1:21הָאִ֥ישׁ
    Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
  27. 1 Samuel 1:22לְאִישָׁ֗הּ · to her husband
    …but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
  28. 1 Samuel 1:23אִישָׁ֜הּ · her husband
    “Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
  29. 1 Samuel 2:9אִֽישׁ׃ · man
    He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
  30. 1 Samuel 2:13אִ֞ישׁ · man
    …or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
  31. 1 Samuel 2:15לָאִ֣ישׁ · to the man
    Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
  32. 1 Samuel 2:16הָאִ֗ישׁ · And [if] any man
    And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
  33. 1 Samuel 2:19אִישָׁ֔הּ · her husband
    Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
  34. 1 Samuel 2:25אִ֤ישׁ · a man; לְאִישׁ֙ · against another man; אִ֔ישׁ · a man
    If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
  35. 1 Samuel 2:27אִישׁ־ · Then a man
    Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
  36. 1 Samuel 2:33וְאִ֗ישׁ · And every one
    And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
  37. 1 Samuel 4:2אִֽישׁ׃ · men
    The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
  38. 1 Samuel 4:10אִ֣ישׁ · and each man
    So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
  39. 1 Samuel 4:12אִישׁ־
    That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.
  40. 1 Samuel 4:13וְהָאִ֗ישׁ · When the man
    When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
  41. 1 Samuel 4:14וְהָאִ֣ישׁ · So the man
    Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.
  42. 1 Samuel 4:16הָאִ֜ישׁ · the man
    “I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.
  43. 1 Samuel 4:18הָאִ֖ישׁ
    As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
  44. 1 Samuel 4:19וְאִישָׁ֑הּ · and her husband
    Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
  45. 1 Samuel 4:21וְאִישָֽׁהּ׃ · and her husband had been killed
    And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.