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. Deuteronomy 17:2אִ֣ישׁ · a man
    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
  2. Deuteronomy 17:5הָאִ֣ישׁ · the man; הָאִ֕ישׁ
    …you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
  3. Deuteronomy 17:12וְהָאִ֞ישׁ · But the man; הָאִ֣ישׁ
    But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  4. Deuteronomy 17:15אִ֣ישׁ · a foreigner
    …you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
  5. Deuteronomy 18:19הָאִישׁ֙ · anyone
    And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
  6. Deuteronomy 19:11אִישׁ֙ · a man
    If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
  7. Deuteronomy 19:15בְּאִ֗ישׁ · against a man
    A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  8. Deuteronomy 19:16בְּאִ֑ישׁ · someone
    If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
  9. Deuteronomy 20:5הָאִ֞ישׁ · man; וְאִ֥ישׁ · man
    Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
  10. Deuteronomy 20:6הָאִ֞ישׁ · man; וְאִ֥ישׁ · man
    Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
  11. Deuteronomy 20:7הָאִ֞ישׁ · man; וְאִ֥ישׁ · man
    Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
  12. Deuteronomy 20:8הָאִ֤ישׁ · man
    Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
  13. Deuteronomy 21:15לְאִ֜ישׁ · a man
    If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
  14. Deuteronomy 21:18לְאִ֗ישׁ · a man
    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  15. Deuteronomy 21:22בְאִ֗ישׁ · a man
    If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
  16. Deuteronomy 22:13אִ֖ישׁ · a man
    Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,
  17. Deuteronomy 22:16לָאִ֥ישׁ · man
    …and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
  18. Deuteronomy 22:18הָאִ֑ישׁ · the man
    Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
  19. Deuteronomy 22:22אִ֜ישׁ · a man; הָאִ֛ישׁ · the man
    If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  20. Deuteronomy 22:23לְאִ֑ישׁ · to a man; אִ֛ישׁ · and another man
    If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
  21. Deuteronomy 22:24הָאִ֔ישׁ · and the man
    …you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  22. Deuteronomy 22:25הָאִ֗ישׁ · the man; הָאִ֖ישׁ · and he; הָאִ֛ישׁ · the man
    But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
  23. Deuteronomy 22:26אִ֤ישׁ · one in which a man
    Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
  24. Deuteronomy 22:28אִ֗ישׁ · a man
    If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
  25. Deuteronomy 22:29הָאִ֨ישׁ · then the man
    …then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  26. Deuteronomy 22:30אִ֖ישׁ · A man
    A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
  27. Deuteronomy 23:10אִ֔ישׁ · any man
    If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
  28. Deuteronomy 24:1אִ֛ישׁ · a man
    If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
  29. Deuteronomy 24:2לְאִישׁ־ · man’s wife
    If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
  30. Deuteronomy 24:3הָאִ֣ישׁ · man; הָאִ֣ישׁ
    …and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,
  31. Deuteronomy 24:5אִישׁ֙ · a man
    If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  32. Deuteronomy 24:7אִ֗ישׁ · a man
    If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  33. Deuteronomy 24:11וְהָאִ֗ישׁ · while the man
    You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
  34. Deuteronomy 24:12אִ֥ישׁ · man
    If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
  35. Deuteronomy 24:16אִ֥יש · each
    Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
  36. Deuteronomy 25:5לְאִ֣ישׁ
    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
  37. Deuteronomy 25:7הָאִ֔ישׁ · the man
    But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
  38. Deuteronomy 25:9לָאִ֔ישׁ · to the man
    …his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
  39. Deuteronomy 25:11אִ֣ישׁ; אִישָׁ֖הּ · her husband
    If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,