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. 2 Kings 7:17אִ֣ישׁ · the man
    Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.
  2. 2 Kings 7:18אִ֣ישׁ · just as the man
    It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
  3. 2 Kings 7:19אִ֣ישׁ · the man
    And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
  4. 2 Kings 8:2אִ֣ישׁ · as the man
    So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
  5. 2 Kings 8:4אִישׁ־ · of the man
    Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
  6. 2 Kings 8:7אִ֥ישׁ · The man
    Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
  7. 2 Kings 8:8אִ֣ישׁ · the man
    So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
  8. 2 Kings 8:11אִ֥ישׁ · Then the man
    Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.
  9. 2 Kings 9:11הָאִ֖ישׁ · his kind
    When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.
  10. 2 Kings 9:13אִ֣ישׁ · each man
    Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
  11. 2 Kings 9:21אִ֣ישׁ · each
    “Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
  12. 2 Kings 10:5אִ֔ישׁ · make anyone
    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
  13. 2 Kings 10:6אִ֔ישׁ · in all
    Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
  14. 2 Kings 10:7אִ֑ישׁ · of them
    And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
  15. 2 Kings 10:14אִ֔ישׁ · men; אִ֖ישׁ · none
    Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.
  16. 2 Kings 10:19אִ֣ישׁ · See that no one
    Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
  17. 2 Kings 10:21אִ֖ישׁ · a man
    Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.
  18. 2 Kings 10:24אִ֔ישׁ · men; הָאִ֤ישׁ · If anyone
    And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
  19. 2 Kings 10:25אִ֣ישׁ · let anyone
    When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
  20. 2 Kings 11:8אִ֚ישׁ · and anyone
    You must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who approaches the ranks must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
  21. 2 Kings 11:9אִ֣ישׁ · Each of them
    So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the priest.
  22. 2 Kings 11:11אִ֣ישׁ׀
    And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
  23. 2 Kings 12:4אִ֕ישׁ; אִ֔ישׁ
    Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
  24. 2 Kings 12:5אִ֖ישׁ · Let every
    Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”
  25. 2 Kings 12:9אִישׁ֙ · as one
    Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
  26. 2 Kings 12:15הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים · from the men
    No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.
  27. 2 Kings 13:19אִ֣ישׁ · But the man
    But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
  28. 2 Kings 13:21אִ֗ישׁ · a man; הָאִ֖ישׁ · the man’s body; הָאִישׁ֙ · the man
    Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.
  29. 2 Kings 14:6אִ֥ישׁ · each
    Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
  30. 2 Kings 14:12אִ֥ישׁ · and every man
    And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.
  31. 2 Kings 15:20לְאִ֣ישׁ · man
    Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
  32. 2 Kings 15:25אִ֖ישׁ · men
    Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.
  33. 2 Kings 18:21אִישׁ֙ · of anyone
    Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  34. 2 Kings 18:31אִישׁ־ · Then every one of you; וְאִ֣ישׁ · [and]; אִ֥ישׁ
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
  35. 2 Kings 18:33אִ֣ישׁ · of any
    Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
  36. 2 Kings 22:15לָאִ֔ישׁ · the man
    And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you
  37. 2 Kings 23:2אִ֣ישׁ
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  38. 2 Kings 23:8אִ֖ישׁ
    Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
  39. 2 Kings 23:10אִ֜ישׁ · one
    He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
  40. 2 Kings 23:16אִ֣ישׁ · by the man
    And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
  41. 2 Kings 23:17אִישׁ־ · of the man
    Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
  42. 2 Kings 23:18אִ֖ישׁ · let anyone
    “Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
  43. 2 Kings 23:35אִ֣ישׁ · each
    So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.