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. 1 Samuel 26:23לָאִ֔ישׁ · every man
    May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
  2. 1 Samuel 27:2אִ֖ישׁ · men
    So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
  3. 1 Samuel 27:3אִ֣ישׁ · Each man
    David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
  4. 1 Samuel 27:9אִ֣ישׁ · a man
    Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,
  5. 1 Samuel 27:11וְאִ֨ישׁ · a man
    David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.
  6. 1 Samuel 28:14אִ֤ישׁ · man
    “What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.
  7. 1 Samuel 29:4הָאִ֗ישׁ · Send that man
    But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
  8. 1 Samuel 30:2אִ֑ישׁ · anyone
    They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
  9. 1 Samuel 30:6אִ֖ישׁ · of every man
    And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
  10. 1 Samuel 30:9אִישׁ֙ · men
    So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind
  11. 1 Samuel 30:10אִ֑ישׁ · men; אִ֔ישׁ · men
    …because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.
  12. 1 Samuel 30:11אִישׁ־
    Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
  13. 1 Samuel 30:13לְאִ֣ישׁ
    Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
  14. 1 Samuel 30:17אִ֔ישׁ · a man; אִֽישׁ־ · men
    And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
  15. 1 Samuel 30:22אִֽישׁ־ · men; אִ֤ישׁ · for each
    …but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
  16. 1 Samuel 31:12אִ֣ישׁ · their men
    …all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
  17. 2 Samuel 1:2אִ֨ישׁ · a man
    On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.
  18. 2 Samuel 1:13אִ֛ישׁ
    And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”
  19. 2 Samuel 2:3אִ֣ישׁ · each
    David also took the men who were with him, each with his household, and they settled in the towns near Hebron.
  20. 2 Samuel 2:16אִ֣ישׁ׀ · Then each man
    Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.
  21. 2 Samuel 2:27אִ֖ישׁ
    “As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”
  22. 2 Samuel 2:30אִ֖ישׁ
    When Joab returned from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the troops. In addition to Asahel, nineteen of David’s servants were missing,
  23. 2 Samuel 2:31וּבְאַנְשֵׁ֖י; אִ֖ישׁ
    …but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
  24. 2 Samuel 3:15אִ֑ישׁ · [her] husband
    So Ish-bosheth sent and took Michal from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.
  25. 2 Samuel 3:16אִישָׁ֗הּ · Her husband
    Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he returned home.
  26. 2 Samuel 4:11אִישׁ־ · man
    How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
  27. 2 Samuel 6:19לְמֵאִ֣ישׁ · man; לְאִ֗ישׁ; אִ֥ישׁ · each
    Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
  28. 2 Samuel 8:4אִ֣ישׁ · foot soldiers
    David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
  29. 2 Samuel 8:5אִֽישׁ׃ · men
    When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of their men.
  30. 2 Samuel 8:10אִ֛ישׁ
    …he sent his son Joram to greet King David and bless him for fighting and defeating Hadadezer, who had been at war with Toi. Joram brought with him articles of silver and gold and bronze,
  31. 2 Samuel 9:3אִישׁ֙ · Is there anyone
    So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of the house of Saul to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”
  32. 2 Samuel 10:6אִ֔ישׁ · men; וְאִ֣ישׁ · men; אִֽישׁ׃ · thousand
    When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
  33. 2 Samuel 10:8וְאִֽישׁ־ · and the men
    The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
  34. 2 Samuel 11:26אִישָׁ֑הּ · her husband
    When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
  35. 2 Samuel 12:4לְאִ֣ישׁ · man; הָאִ֣ישׁ · man’s; לָאִ֖ישׁ · for his guest
    Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
  36. 2 Samuel 12:5בָּאִ֖ישׁ · against the man; הָאִ֖ישׁ · the man
    David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  37. 2 Samuel 12:7הָאִ֑ישׁ · are that man
    Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
  38. 2 Samuel 13:3אִ֥ישׁ · man
    Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
  39. 2 Samuel 13:9אִישׁ֙
    Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.