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Human

אֱנוֹשׁStrong’s H0582

enosh (e-nosh)

Appears in 531 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Enosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “men of”, “men” and “people of”. It appears in 531 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.”
Daniel 10:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Man, mortal man, person, mankindof an individual · men (collective) · man, mankind
How it's translated
  • men of 128
  • the men 107
  • men 92
  • people of 39
  • and men his 25
  • people 21
  • and the men 16
  • humankind 15

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 66
  • Genesis 47
  • Jeremiah 45
  • Judges 38
  • 2 Samuel 33
  • Numbers 32

32 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 531 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
18:27
Ruth 2
1:114:2
Ecclesiastes 2
9:1412:3
Daniel 1
10:7
Joel 2
2:73:9
Amos 1
6:9
Obadiah 1
1:7
Micah 1
7:6
Nahum 1
2:3
Zephaniah 2
1:123:4
Zechariah 3
3:87:28:23
Hebrew dictionary

אֱנוֹשׁ enosh · human

1) man, mortal man, person, mankind 1a) of an individual 1b) men (collective) 1c) man, mankind Aramaic equivalent: e.nash (אֱנָשׁ "man" H0606)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

HU'MAN, adjective

[Latin humanus; Heb. form, species.]

  1. Belonging to man or mankind; pertaining or relating to the race of man; as a human voice; human shape; human nature; human knowledge; human life.
  2. Having the qualities of a man.
  3. Profane; not sacred or divine; as a human author. [Not in use.]

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.