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. Nehemiah 13:30אִ֥ישׁ · to each
    Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
  2. Esther 1:8אִישׁ־ · each; וָאִֽישׁ׃ · man
    By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
  3. Esther 1:22אִישׁ֙ · man
    He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.
  4. Esther 2:5אִ֣ישׁ · man; אִ֥ישׁ
    Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
  5. Esther 4:11אִ֣ישׁ · man
    “All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
  6. Esther 6:6בָּאִ֕ישׁ · for the man
    Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
  7. Esther 6:7אִ֕ישׁ · For the man
    And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
  8. Esther 6:9אִ֞ישׁ · to one; הָאִ֔ישׁ · the man; לָאִ֔ישׁ · for the man
    Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”
  9. Esther 6:11לָאִ֔ישׁ · for the man
    So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
  10. Esther 7:6אִ֚ישׁ
    Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
  11. Esther 9:2וְאִישׁ֙ · man
    In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
  12. Esther 9:4הָאִ֥ישׁ
    For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.
  13. Esther 9:6אִֽישׁ׃ · men
    In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
  14. Esther 9:12אִ֗ישׁ · men
    …who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
  15. Esther 9:15אִ֑ישׁ · men
    On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  16. Esther 9:19אִ֥ישׁ · to one
    This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
  17. Esther 9:22אִ֣ישׁ · to one
    …as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
  18. Job 1:1אִ֛ישׁ · a man; הָאִ֣ישׁ · And this man
    There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
  19. Job 1:3הָאִ֣ישׁ · man
    …and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
  20. Job 1:4אִ֣ישׁ
    Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
  21. Job 1:8אִ֣ישׁ · a man
    Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
  22. Job 2:3אִ֣ישׁ · a man [who is]
    Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
  23. Job 2:4לָאִ֔ישׁ · A man
    “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
  24. Job 2:11אִ֣ישׁ · each of them
    Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
  25. Job 2:12אִ֣ישׁ · and each man
    When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
  26. Job 9:32אִ֣ישׁ · a man
    For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
  27. Job 11:2אִ֖ישׁ · a speaker
    “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
  28. Job 11:12וְאִ֣ישׁ · man
    But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
  29. Job 12:10אִֽישׁ׃
    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
  30. Job 12:14אִ֝֗ישׁ · the man
    What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
  31. Job 14:12וְאִ֥ישׁ · so a man
    …so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
  32. Job 15:16אִישׁ־ · man
    …how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
  33. Job 22:8וְאִ֣ישׁ · man
    …while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
  34. Job 31:35אִ֣ישׁ · let my accuser
    (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
  35. Job 32:13אִֽישׁ׃ · man
    So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
  36. Job 32:21אִ֑ישׁ · one
    I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
  37. Job 34:11אִ֝֗ישׁ · according to a man’s
    For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
  38. Job 34:21אִ֑ישׁ · of a man
    For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
  39. Job 34:23אִ֭ישׁ · a man
    For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
  40. Job 35:8לְאִישׁ־ · affects only a man
    Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
  41. Job 37:20אִ֝֗ישׁ · Would a man
    Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
  42. Job 38:26אִ֑ישׁ
    …to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
  43. Job 41:17אִישׁ־ · to one
    They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
  44. Job 42:11אִ֚ישׁ · And each; וְאִ֕ישׁ
    All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.