אִישׁʼîysh
man, one…another, often distributive = each, every (Genesis 2:23; Genesis 25:27; Genesis 29:32; Psalms 141:4; Genesis 12:20)
Pronunciation: eesh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H376
Same root
- אֱנוֹשׁʼĕnôwsh · H582a man in general (singly or collectively)
- אִישׁʼîysh · H377to be a man, i.e. act in amanly way
- אִישׁ־בֹּשֶׁתʼÎysh-Bôsheth · H378Ish-Bosheth, a son of King Saul
- אִישְׁהוֹדʼÎyshᵉhôwd · H379Ishod, an Israelite
- אִישׁוֹןʼîyshôwn · H380the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night)
- אִישׁ־חַיִלʼÎysh-Chayil · H381Ishchail (or Ish-chai), an Israelite
- אִישׁ־טוֹבʼÎysh-Ṭôwb · H382Ish-Tob, a place in Palestine
- אֶשְׁבַּעַלʼEshbaʻal · H792Eshbaal (or Ishbosheth), a son of Saul
Where it appears
Appears 1,663 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’”
- Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
- Genesis 3:6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
- Genesis 3:16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
- Genesis 4:1 Now Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, “With the Lord’s help, I have produced a man!”
- Genesis 4:23 One day Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; listen to me, you wives of Lamech. I have killed a man who attacked me, a young man who wounded me.
See every passage
- Genesis 98 verses
- Exodus 72 verses
- Leviticus 75 verses
- Numbers 78 verses
- Deuteronomy 65 verses
- Joshua 33 verses
- Judges 124 verses
- Ruth 17 verses
- 1 Samuel 115 verses
- 2 Samuel 84 verses
- 1 Kings 60 verses
- 2 Kings 90 verses
- 1 Chronicles 20 verses
- 2 Chronicles 39 verses
- Ezra 4 verses
- Nehemiah 23 verses
- Esther 16 verses
- Job 27 verses
- Psalms 37 verses
- Proverbs 83 verses
- Ecclesiastes 6 verses
- Song of Solomon 3 verses
- Isaiah 43 verses
- Jeremiah 100 verses
- Lamentations 1 verses
- Ezekiel 56 verses
- Daniel 7 verses
- Hosea 9 verses
- Joel 2 verses
- Amos 2 verses
- Obadiah 1 verses
- Jonah 4 verses
- Micah 7 verses
- Zephaniah 2 verses
- Haggai 3 verses
- Zechariah 20 verses
- Malachi 4 verses
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).