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Lexicon :: Strong's H376 - 'îš

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אִישׁ
Transliteration
'îš
Pronunciation
eesh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (H582) [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 83a

Strong’s Definitions

אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; 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):—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.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x

The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x
The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).
  1. man

    1. man, male (in contrast to woman, female)

    2. husband

    3. human being, person (in contrast to God)

    4. servant

    5. mankind

    6. champion

    7. great man

  2. whosoever

  3. each (adjective)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; 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):—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.
STRONGS H376: Abbreviations
אִישׁ 2166 noun masculine man (= vir) (MI, SI, Phoenician אש, perhaps also Sabean אסם compare Prätl.c., but DHMZMG 1883, 330) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:23 +; construct Genesis 25:27 +; suffix אִישִׁי Genesis 29:32 +, etc.; plural אִישִׁים Psalm 141:4 + 2 times (Phoenician אשם); usually אֲנָשִׁים Genesis 12:20 +, from √ אנשׁ which see; construct אַנְשֵׁי Judges 6:27 +; suffix אֲנָשַׁי 1 Samuel 23:12 etc.; — man, opposed to woman Genesis 2:23, 24; Leviticus 20:27; Numbers 5:6; Deuteronomy 17:2f; Joshua 6:21; Joshua 8:25; Jeremiah 40:7, emphasis on sexual distinction & relation Genesis 19:8; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 38:25; Exodus 22:15; Leviticus 15:16 (שִׁכְבַת זָרַ֑ע) Leviticus 15:18 (בֶּןא׳ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ שׁ׳־ז׳ וְאִשָּׁה) Leviticus 20:10f; Numbers 5:13f; Deuteronomy 22:22f; Isaiah 4:1 +; thence = husband, especially with suffix Genesis 3:6, 16; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 29:32, 34; Leviticus 21:7; Numbers 30:7f; Deuteronomy 28:56; Judges 13:8f; Ruth 1:3f; 1 Samuel 25:19; Jeremiah 29:6; Ezekiel 16:45 +; figurative of י׳ as husband of Israel אִישִׁי Hosea 2:18 (opposed to בַּעְלִּי); man as procreator, father Ecclesiastes 6:3; of male child Genesis 4:1 compare זֶרַע אֲנָשִׁים 1 Samuel 1:11; man, opposed to beast Exodus 11:7; Leviticus 20:15 (compare אָדָם); compare figurative Psalm 22:7 but also of male of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse) (אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֺ); man, opposed to God Genesis 32:29; Numbers 23:19 לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִיכַזֵּב (|| וּבֶן־אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם); Job 9:32; Job 32:13; Hosea 11:9 compare Isaiah 31:8; Job 12:10 (רוּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר אִישׁ); hence in phrases to denote ordinary, customary, common שֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים 2 Samuel 7:14 (|| נִגְעֵי בְּנֵי אָדָם); לֶחֶם אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17, 22 [**אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22 is textual error; We (apparently Sm) אֲנֻשִׁים; ToyHpt אוֺנִים (Hos 9:4).] (compare Isaiah 8:1); אַמַּת־אִישׁ Deuteronomy 3:11; but also contracted אָדָם Psalm 49:3; Psalm 62:10; man, as valiant 1 Samuel 4:9 (twice in verse) (וִהְיוּ לַאֲנָשִׁים) so, 1 Kings 2:2 compare 1 Samuel 26:15; so אִישׁ חַיִל [H381 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Kings 1:42] +; also אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה Numbers 31:49; Deuteronomy 2:14, 16; Joshua 5:4, 6 +; even of י׳ Exodus 15:3 יהוה אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה; often prefixed to other nouns in apposition אָדוֺן א׳ Genesis 42:30, 33, שַׂר וְשֹׁפֵט א׳ Exodus 2:14, כֹּהֵן א׳ Leviticus 21:9, סָרִיס א׳ Jeremiah 38:7; particular before adjective, of a people אִישׁ מִצְרִי Genesis 39:1; Exodus 2:11, 19 compare Genesis 37:28; Genesis 38:1, 2; Genesis 39:14; 1 Samuel 17:12; 1 Samuel 30:11, 13 +; a man as resident in, or belonging to a place or people Numbers 25:6; Judges 10:1 + (so Phoenician); usually plural אַנְשֵׁי יִשְׂרָאֵל 1 Samuel 7:11; 1 Samuel 31:7 (twice in verse) compare Joshua 7:4, 5 +; also singular collective Deuteronomy 27:14; Joshua 9:6, 7; Judges 20:11; 1 Samuel 11:8 (see Dr) +; [H382 2 Samuel 10:6, 8] (טוֺב א׳); (so MI10; MI13); men = retainers, followers, soldiers 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 23:3; f 1 Samuel 24:3; 1 Samuel 25:13Deuteronomy 33:8 singular collective see Di; אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים man of God = prophet Deuteronomy 33:1; Joshua 14:6; 1 Samuel 9:6f; 1 Kings 12:13f + (see אלהים); in phrase followed by abstract אִישׁ חַיִל, מִלְחָמָה א׳ see above; שֵׂיבָה א׳ Deuteronomy 32:25, הַדָּמִים א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7 compare see 8, הַבְּלִיַּעַל א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7, מָוֶת א׳ 1 Kings 2:26, חָמָס א׳ Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 3:31 +; followed by word of occupation, etc. שָׂדֶה א׳ Genesis 25:27, הָאֲדָמָה א׳ Genesis 9:20 (compare Zechariah 13:5), א׳ הַבֵּנַיִם champion 1 Samuel 17:4 (compare Dr) 1 Samuel 17:23, בְּשׂרָה א׳ 2 Samuel 18:20, אִישׁ עֲצָתוֺ his counsellor Isaiah 40:13, compare אִישׁ חֶרְמִי 1 Kings 20:42, רֵעִים א׳ Proverbs 18:24; often distributive = each, every Genesis 9:5; Genesis 10:5; Genesis 40:5 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:3 +; including women Job 42:11; 1 Chronicles 16:3 וַיְחַלֵּק לְכָל־אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאִישׁ וְעַד אִשָּׁה לְאִישׁ כִּכַּר־לֶחֶם; of inanimate things 1 Kings 7:30, 36; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Exodus 36:4; Numbers 4:19, 49; Ezekiel 14:4, 7 +; any one Exodus 34:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 34:24 +; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Leviticus 15:2; Leviticus 22:4, 18 +; of gods 2 Kings 18:33 = Isaiah 36:18; one...another וְהִרְגוּ אִישׁ־ אֶת־אָחִיו וְאִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ וְאִישׁ אֶת־קְרֹבוֺ Exodus 32:27, ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ אָחִיו Deuteronomy 1:16; Micah 7:2 (see אָח), רֵעֵהוּ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ Genesis 11:3, 7 + (see רֵעַ) of inanimate things Genesis 15:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:23; 2:23; 2:24; 3:6; 3:16; 4:1; 7:2; 9:5; 9:20; 10:5; 11:3; 11:7; 12:20; 15:10; 16:3; 19:8; 24:16; 25:27; 25:27; 29:32; 29:32; 29:34; 32:29; 37:28; 38:1; 38:2; 38:25; 39:1; 39:14; 40:5; 42:30; 42:33

Exodus

2:11; 2:14; 2:19; 11:7; 12:3; 15:3; 22:15; 32:27; 34:3; 34:24; 36:4

Leviticus

15:2; 15:16; 15:18; 20:10; 20:15; 20:27; 21:7; 21:9; 22:4; 22:18

Numbers

4:19; 4:49; 5:6; 5:13; 23:19; 25:6; 30:7; 31:49

Deuteronomy

1:16; 2:14; 2:16; 3:11; 17:2; 22:22; 27:14; 28:56; 32:25; 33:1; 33:8

Joshua

5:4; 5:6; 6:21; 7:4; 7:5; 8:25; 9:6; 9:7; 14:6

Judges

6:27; 10:1; 13:8; 20:11

Ruth

1:3

1 Samuel

1:11; 4:9; 7:11; 9:6; 11:8; 17:4; 17:12; 17:23; 18:27; 23:3; 23:12; 24:3; 25:13; 25:19; 26:15; 30:11; 30:13; 31:7

2 Samuel

7:14; 16:7; 16:7; 18:20

1 Kings

2:2; 2:26; 7:30; 7:36; 12:13; 20:42

2 Kings

18:33

1 Chronicles

16:3

Job

9:32; 12:10; 32:13; 42:11

Psalms

22:7; 49:3; 62:10; 140:12; 141:4

Proverbs

3:31; 18:24

Ecclesiastes

6:3

Isaiah

4:1; 8:1; 31:8; 36:18; 40:13

Jeremiah

29:6; 38:7; 40:7

Ezekiel

14:4; 14:7; 16:45; 24:17; 24:17; 24:22; 24:22

Hosea

2:18; 9:4; 11:9

Micah

7:2

Zechariah

13:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H376 matches the Hebrew אִישׁ ('îš),
which occurs 212 times in 168 verses in '1Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (1Sa 1:1–1Sa 10:6)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:1 -

Now there was a certain man H376 from Ramathaim-zophim from the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:3 -

Now that man H376 would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to [fn]Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh there.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Then Elkanah her husband H376 said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she made a vow and said, “O Yahweh of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a seed amongst men H376, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come on his head.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:21 -

Then the man H376 Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:22 - But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband H376, “I will not go up until the young boy is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh and stay there forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - And Elkanah her husband H376 said to her, “Do what is good in your eyes. Remain until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish His word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 -

“He keeps the feet of His holy ones,

But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness,

For not by power shall a man H376 prevail.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And this was the legal judgment for the priests with the people: when any man H376 was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s young man would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Also, before they offered up the fat in smoke, the priest’s young man would come and say to the man H376 who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting; he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - Then the man H376 would say to him, “They must surely offer up the fat in smoke [fn]first, and then take as much as your soul desires,” then he would say, “No, you shall give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:17 - Thus the sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh, for the men H376 spurned the offering of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband H376 to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - “If one man H376 sins against another H376, God will mediate for him; but if a man H376 sins against Yahweh, who can pray for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for Yahweh desired to put them to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:26 -

Now the young boy Samuel [fn]was growing in stature and in favor both with Yahweh and with men H376.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 -

Then a man H376 of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Did I not indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt, enslaved to Pharaoh’s house?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - ‘Yet I will not cut off every H376 man H376 of yours from My altar [fn]so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will be put to death [fn]in the prime H376 of life H376.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - And the Philistines arranged themselves to meet Israel. Then the battle spread, and Israel was [fn]defeated before the Philistines who struck down about 4,000 men H376 on the battlefield.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:9 - “Be strong and become men H376, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews, as they have been slaves to you; therefore, become men H376 and fight.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 -

So the Philistines fought, and Israel was [fn]defeated, and every H376 man H376 fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel 30,000 foot soldiers.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:12 -

Now a man H376 of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day with his robes torn and [fn]dust on his head.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:13 - And he came, and behold, Eli was sitting on his seat [fn]by the road eagerly watching because his heart was trembling for the ark of God. Now the man H376 came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:14 - Then Eli heard the noise of the outcry, and he said, “What does the noise of this commotion mean?” So the man H376 came hurriedly and told Eli.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - And the man H376 said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I fled from the battle line today.” And he said, “How did things go, my son?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it happened that when he mentioned the ark of God, [fn]Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for the man was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19 -

Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife, was with child and about to give birth. And she heard the report that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband H376 had died, so she kneeled down and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21 - And she called the boy [fn]Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband H376.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:7 - Thus the men H376 of Ashdod saw that it was so and said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - Now it happened after they had brought it around, that the hand of Yahweh was against the city with very great confusion; and He struck the men H376 of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:12 - Now the men H376 who did not die were struck with tumors and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:10 -

Then the men H376 did so and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:15 - And the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the box that was with it, in which were the articles of gold, and put them on the large stone; and the men H376 of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices that day to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 -

Then He struck down some of the men H376 of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men H376, and the people mourned because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20 - And the men H376 of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:1 -

And the men H376 of Kiriath-jearim came and brought the ark of Yahweh up and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill and set apart Eleazar his son as holy in order to keep the ark of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11 - So the men H376 of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them down as far as below Beth-car.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22 - Then Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and [fn]appoint them a king.” So Samuel said to the men H376 of Israel, “Go every H376 man H376 to his city.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:1 -

Now there was a man H376 of Benjamin whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite H376, a mighty man of [fn]valor.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - Now he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and handsome man, and there was not a more handsome person H376 than he among the sons of Israel; from his shoulders and up he was taller than any of the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But he said to him, “Behold now, there is a man H376 of God in this city, and the man H376 is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have gone.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - Then Saul said to his young man, “But behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man H376? For the bread is gone from our sack, and there is no present to bring to the man H376 of God. What do we have?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:8 - And the young man answered Saul again and said, “Behold, I have in my hand a fourth of a [fn]shekel of silver; I will give it to the man H376 of God, and he will tell us our way.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9 - (Formerly in Israel, when a man H376 went to inquire of God, he used to say, “Come, and let us go to the seer”; for he who is called a prophet now was formerly called a seer.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:10 - Then Saul said to his young man, “Your word is good; come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man H376 of God was.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man H376 from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have regarded My people because their cry has come to Me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:17 - Now Samuel saw Saul, and Yahweh answered him, “Behold, the man H376 of whom I spoke to you! This one shall restrict My people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:22 -

Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the chamber and gave them a place at the head of those who were invited, who were about thirty men H376.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - “When you go from me today, then you will find two men H376 close to Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to search for have been found. Now behold, your father has [fn]ceased to be concerned about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - “Then you will go on further from there, and you will come as far as the [fn]oak of Tabor, and there three men H376 going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a jug of wine;
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:6 - “Then the Spirit of Yahweh will [fn]come upon you mightily, and you shall prophesy with them and be changed into another man H376.

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