אִישׁ
ishmanHow to read Hebrew
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.
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
Usage patterns
Occurrences
1,684 total
- Jeremiah 6:23כְּאִישׁ֙ · like menThey grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
- Jeremiah 7:5אִ֖ישׁ · toward oneFor if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- Jeremiah 8:6אִ֗ישׁ · oneI have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
- Jeremiah 9:4אִ֤ישׁ · Let everyone“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
- Jeremiah 9:5וְאִ֤ישׁ · Each oneEach one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
- Jeremiah 9:10אִ֣ישׁ · oneI will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
- Jeremiah 9:12הָאִ֤ישׁ · is the manWho is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
- Jeremiah 10:23לְאִ֣ישׁ · oneI know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
- Jeremiah 11:2אִ֣ישׁ · the men“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 11:3הָאִ֔ישׁ · the manYou must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
- Jeremiah 11:8אִ֕ישׁ · but each oneYet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 11:9בְּאִ֣ישׁ · among the menAnd the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 12:11אִ֖ישׁ · manThey have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- Jeremiah 12:15אִ֥ישׁ · each one; וְאִ֥ישׁBut after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
- Jeremiah 13:11אִ֗ישׁ · a man’sFor just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
- Jeremiah 13:14אִ֨ישׁ · oneI will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
- Jeremiah 14:9כְּאִ֣ישׁ · like a manWhy are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
- Jeremiah 15:10אִ֥ישׁ · a man; וְאִ֥ישׁWoe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 16:12אִ֚ישׁ · each of youAnd you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 17:10לְאִישׁ֙ · a manI, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jeremiah 17:25אִ֥ישׁ · along with the men…then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
- Jeremiah 18:11אִישׁ־ · the men; אִ֚ישׁ · each of youNow therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
- Jeremiah 18:12וְאִ֛ישׁ · and each of usBut they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Jeremiah 19:9וְאִ֥ישׁ · oneI will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Jeremiah 20:15הָאִ֗ישׁ · the manCursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
- Jeremiah 20:16הָאִ֣ישׁ · that manMay that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
- Jeremiah 22:7אִ֣ישׁ · each manI will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 22:8אִ֣ישׁ · oneAnd many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
- Jeremiah 22:28הָאִ֤ישׁ · manIs this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
- Jeremiah 22:30הָאִ֤ישׁ · man; אִ֚ישׁThis is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
- Jeremiah 23:9כְּאִ֣ישׁ · like a drunkardAs for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
- Jeremiah 23:14אִ֖ישׁ · oneAnd among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
- Jeremiah 23:24אִ֧ישׁ · a man“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 23:27אִ֣ישׁ · oneThey suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
- Jeremiah 23:30אִ֖ישׁ · from one“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”
- Jeremiah 23:34הָאִ֥ישׁ · manAs for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
- Jeremiah 23:35אִ֥ישׁ · each man; וְאִ֣ישׁThis is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
- Jeremiah 23:36לְאִ֣ישׁ · eachBut refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
- Jeremiah 25:5אִ֣ישׁ · each of youThe prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
- Jeremiah 25:26אִ֣ישׁ · one…all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
- Jeremiah 26:3אִ֖ישׁ · eachPerhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
- Jeremiah 26:11לָאִ֣ישׁ · manThen the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”
- Jeremiah 26:16לָאִ֤ישׁ · manThen the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”
- Jeremiah 26:20אִ֗ישׁ · another manNow there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
- Jeremiah 29:26אִ֥ישׁ · madman‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.