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אִישׁ

ish

eesh

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼîysh

a man as an individual or a male person

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

also, another, any (man), a certain, [phrase] champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), [phrase] none, one, people, person, [phrase] steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802 (אִשָּׁה).

  • 1,663
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 106
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 106

  • אִ֣ישׁ68
  • אִ֥ישׁ49
  • אִ֖ישׁ40
  • אִ֛ישׁ25
  • אִישׁ֙24
  • אִ֔ישׁ15
  • אִישׁ־12
  • אִ֗ישׁ11
  • וְאִ֗ישׁ11
  • אִ֑ישׁ10
  • הָאִ֔ישׁ9
  • הָאִ֣ישׁ9

and 94 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 77

  • a man85
  • anyone58
  • the man50
  • each34
  • everyone34
  • a person23
  • and a man19
  • man18
  • each one13
  • husband her12
  • and anyone10
  • the person10

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 19

  • noun · masculine singular294
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular68
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular40
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular24
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)20
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular13
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular12
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular4
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 294
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 68
  • HC/Ncmsa · 40
  • HR/Ncmsa · 24
  • HNcmsc · 20
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 13
  • HNcmsc/Sp3fs · 12
  • HR/Ncmsc · 6
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 5
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 4
  • HNcmsc/Sp2fs · 4
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3fs · 3

The first 500 of 1,663, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis108 occurrences
Exodus83 occurrences
Leviticus93 occurrences
Numbers98 occurrences
Deuteronomy76 occurrences
Joshua4 occurrences
Psalms38 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אִישׁ

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).