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Man

אִישׁStrong’s H0376

ish

Appears in 1,430 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ish is the Hebrew word usually translated “man”, “anyone” and “each”. It appears in 1,430 verses of the Old Testament.

“O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.”
Daniel 9:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Manman, male (in contrast to woman, female) · husband · human being, person (in contrast to God) · servant · mankind · champion · great man
  2. Whosoever
  3. Each (adjective)
How it's translated
  • a man 207
  • anyone 145
  • the man 144
  • man 141
  • each 129
  • man of 128
  • everyone 117
  • a person 91

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 124
  • 1 Samuel 115
  • Jeremiah 100
  • Genesis 98
  • 2 Kings 90
  • 2 Samuel 84

37 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 1,430 verses, by book
Ecclesiastes 6
1:84:46:26:37:59:15
Song of Solomon 3
3:88:78:11
Lamentations 1
3:33
Joel 2
2:72:8
Amos 2
2:75:19
Obadiah 1
1:9
Zephaniah 2
2:113:6
Haggai 3
1:92:122:22
Hebrew dictionary

אִישׁ ish · man

: man 1) man 1a) man, male (in contrast to woman, female) 1b) husband 1c) human being, person (in contrast to God) 1d) servant 1e) mankind 1f) champion 1g) great man 2) whosoever 3) each (adjective)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “man” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MAN, noun

plural men. [Heb.species, kind, image, similitude.]

  1. Mankind; the human race; the whole species of human beings; beings distinguished from all other animals by the powers of reason and speech, as well as by their shape and dignified aspect. 'Os homini sublime dedit.'“And God said, Let us make man in our image,, after our likeness, and let them have dominion--” Genesis 1:26“MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble” Job 14:1“My spirit shall not always strive with man” Genesis 6:3“I will destroy man whom I have created” Genesis 6:7“There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man” 1 Corinthians 10:13“It is written, man shall not live by bread alone” Matthew 4:4
  2. A male individual of the human race, of adult growth or years.
  3. A male of the human race; used often in compound words, or in the nature of an adjective; as a man-child; men-cooks; men-servants.
  4. A servant, or an attendant of the male sex.
All definitions
  1. A word of familiar address.
  2. It sometimes bears the sense of a male adult of some uncommon qualifications; particularly, the sense of strength, vigor, bravery, virile powers, or magnanimity, as distinguished from the weakness, timidity or impotence of a boy, or from the narrow mindedness of low bred men.“Thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth” 1 Samuel 17:33
  3. An individual of the human species.
  4. man is sometimes opposed to boy or child, and sometimes to beast.
  5. One who is master of his mental powers, or who conducts himself with his usual judgment.
  6. It is sometimes used indefinitely, without reference to a particular individual; any person; one.
  7. In popular usage, a husband.
  8. A movable piece at chess or draughts.
  9. In feudal law, a vassal, a liege subject or tenant.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.