Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H378
אִישׁ־בֹּשֶׁת
ish-Boshetheesh-bo'-sheth
Ish-bosheth
22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÎysh-Bôsheth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H378is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H378
Ish-Bosheth, a son of King Saul
The King James renders it: Ish-bosheth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ish-Bosheth is rendered "Ish-bosheth". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Twenty-two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 2:8Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
2 Samuel 2:8אִ֥ישׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-two of the word's twenty-two uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bosheth11
- Ish-10
- and for Ish-1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אִישׁ | ish | man | Uses1,663 |
| אִישׁוֹן | ishon | pupil | Uses5 |
| אִישׁ | ish | be manly | Uses1 |
| אִישׁ־חַיִל | ish-Chayil | hero | Usesnot recorded |
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אִֽישׁ־7
- בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙3
- אִ֣ישׁ2
- בֹּ֣שֶׁת2
- בֹּ֗שֶׁת2
- בֹּ֥שֶׁת2
- אִ֥ישׁ1
- בֹּ֔שֶׁת1
- בֹּ֑שֶׁת1
- וּלְאִ֥ישׁ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)21HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
2 Samuel
twenty-two uses
Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
- אִ֥ישׁʾishproper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙boshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֣שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֣שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
So they got up and were counted off—twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve for David.
- וּלְאִ֥ישׁuleishconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and for Ish-
- בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙boshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֗שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֥שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
So Ish-bosheth sent and took Michal from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.
- אִ֣ישׁʾishproper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֔שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.
- אִ֣ישׁʾishproper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֑שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֥שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֗שֶׁתboshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
- אִֽישׁ־ʾish-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ish-
- בֹּ֙שֶׁת֙boshetproper noun (a name)tagged: bosheth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.