There is
אִשׁStrong’s H0786ish
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ish is the Hebrew word usually translated “there is” and “there”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:”
Meaning
- There is, there are
How it's translated
- there is 1
- there 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אִשׁ ish · there is
there is, there are
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “there” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THERE, adverb
- In that place.“The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed” Genesis 2:8
- It is sometimes opposed to here; there denoting the place most distant.
- Here and there in one place and another; as here a little and there a little.
- It is sometimes used by way of exclamation; calling the attention to something distant; as there there; see there; look there
All definitions
- there is used to begin sentences or before a verb; sometimes pertinently, and sometimes without signification; but its use is to firmly established that it cannot be dispensed with.“And there came a voice from heaven, saying, thou art my beloved Son” Mark 1:11
- In composition, there has the sense of a pronoun, as in Saxon; as thereby, which signifies by that.
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.