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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H606

אֱנָשׁ

enashen-awsh'

man

25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼĕnâsh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H606is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H606

a man

The King James renders it: man, [phrase] whosoever.

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

enash is rendered "man". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Twenty-three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:11(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:

Ezra 4:11אֱנָ֥שׁ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-three of the word's twenty-five uses are in Daniel.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the humankind10
  • person4
  • a human2
  • and person2
  • human the2
  • a person1
  • humankind1
  • like a human1
  • man1
  • man of1

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.

The words it stands beside

All 25, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 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

  • אֲנָשָׁ֔א4
  • אֱנָ֡שׁ2
  • אֱנָ֖שׁ2
  • אֲנָשָׁ֣א2
  • וֶֽאֱנָ֜שׁ2
  • אֱנָ֔שׁ1
  • אֱ֠נָשׁ1
  • אֱנָ֥שׁ1
  • אֱנָ֗שׁ1
  • אֲנָשׁ֙1
  • אֲ֠נָשָׁא1
  • אֲנָשָׁ֗א1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)12ANcbsd/Ta
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular8ANcbsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular2AC/Ncbsa
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1ANcbsc
  • noun · masculine plural1ANcmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular1AR/Ncbsa

Ezra

two uses
  • (This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:

    Ezra 4:11

    • אֱנָ֥שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: man of
  • I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

    Ezra 6:11

    • אֱנָ֗שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: person

Daniel

twenty-three uses
  • The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.

    Daniel 2:10

    • אֲנָשׁ֙ʾanashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a person
  • Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

    Daniel 2:38

    • אֲ֠נָשָׁאʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.

    Daniel 2:43

    • אֲנָשָׁ֔אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • You, O king, have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the golden statue,

    Daniel 3:10

    • אֱנָ֡שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: person
  • Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of a beast till seven times pass him by.

    Daniel 4:16

    • אֲנָשָׁ֣אʾenosha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: human the
  • This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’

    Daniel 4:17

    • אֲנָשָׁ֗אʾenosha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: human the
    • אֲנָשִׁ֖יםʾanashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: humankind
  • You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.

    Daniel 4:25

    • אֲנָשָׁ֡אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
    • אֲנָשָׁ֔אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”

    Daniel 4:32

    • אֲנָשָׁא֩ʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
    • אֲנָשָׁ֔אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

    Daniel 4:33

    • אֲנָשָׁ֣אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

    Daniel 5:5

    • אֱנָ֔שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a human
  • The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

    Daniel 5:7

    • אֱ֠נָשׁʾenoshnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: person
  • He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

    Daniel 5:21

    • אֲנָשָׁ֨אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
    • אֲנָשָׁ֔אʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.

    Daniel 6:7

    • וֶֽאֱנָ֜שׁveenashconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and person
  • So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”

    Daniel 6:12

    • אֱנָ֡שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: person
    • וֶֽאֱנָ֜שׁveenashconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and person
  • The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and given the mind of a man.

    Daniel 7:4

    • כֶּאֱנָ֣שׁkeenashpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: like a human
    • אֱנָ֖שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a human
  • While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

    Daniel 7:8

    • אֲנָשָׁא֙ʾanasha'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the humankind
  • In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.

    Daniel 7:13

    • אֱנָ֖שׁʾenashnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: man

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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