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אִישׁ
ʼîysh · Hebrew · Strong's H376 · 2184 occurrences
The KJV renders 25 different Hebrew and Greek words as “man”
What it means
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)
contracted for H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ) (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant);
How the KJV renders it
also, another, any, a certain, consent, each, every, fellow, foot, husbandman, good, great, mighty man, high, him, husband, man, one, people, person, what soever, whoso, worthy
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“man”
also renders ánthrōpos (G444), anḗr (G435), árrhēn (G730), téleios (G5046), heîs (G1520), anthrṓpinos (G442), ischyrós (G2478), oudeís (G3762), ʼĕnâsh (H606), bâgad (H898), bîyn (H995), baʻal (H1167), gibbôwr (H1368), geber (H1397), gᵉbar (H1399), gᵉbar (H1400), châkâm (H2450), chârash (H2790), nephesh (H5315), rôʼsh (H7218), rab (H7227), rêyq (H7386), raʻ (H7451), râʻaʻ (H7489)
“great”
also renders hikanós (G2425), mégas (G3173), pleíōn (G4119), lían (G3029), ʼatstsîyl (H679), baʻal (H1167), bâqâr (H1241), gᵉlâl (H1560), chûwl (H2342), chalchâlâh (H2479), kâbad (H3513), kâbêd (H3515), lâbîyʼ (H3833), mᵉʼôd (H3966), marbeh (H4766), ʻâtsûwm (H6099), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâlâʼ (H6381), rab (H7229), rabrab (H7260), racham (H7356), saggîyʼ (H7689)
“one”
also renders tìs (G5100), állos (G243), eirḗnē (G1515), hékastos (G1538), héteros (G2087), heîs (G1520), ʼechâd (H259), ʼalmônîy (H492), ʼishshâh (H802), gibbôwr (H1368), gam (H1571), chad (H2297), chad (H2298), yâpheh (H3303), nephesh (H5315), pᵉthîy (H6612), rab (H7227), rûwm (H7311), rak (H7390), raʻ (H7451)
“high”
also renders ánō (G507), hýpsos (G5311), mégas (G3173), epouránios (G2032), gâbâhh (H1362), gâbôahh (H1364), gabnôn (H1386), gâdôwl (H1419), ʻal (H5920), ʻillay (H5943), qôwmâh (H6967), rôwmᵉmâh (H7319), shâphâh (H8192), tᵉrûwʻâh (H8643)
“good”
“fellow”
“people”
“any”
“also”
“another”
also renders héteros (G2087), ʼâch (H251), ʼâchôwth (H269), ʼochŏrîy (H317), ʼochŏrân (H321), ʼĕnôwsh (H582), ʻâmîyth (H5997)
“consent”
also renders sýmphōnos (G4859), epineúō (G1962), synkatatíthemai (G4784), prosérchomai (G4334), ʼâbâh (H14), lêb (H3820), shâmaʻ (H8085)
“foot”
also renders básis (G939), poús (G4228), kên (H3653), paʻam (H6471), qarçôl (H7166), rᵉgal (H7271), raglîy (H7273)
“person”
“worthy”
“husbandman”
also renders geōrgós (G1092), ʼikkâr (H406)
“a certain”
also renders ʼechâd (H259)
“mighty man”
also renders gibbôwr (H1368)
“him”
also renders nephesh (H5315)
“whoso”
also renders kôl (H3605)
Answers that weigh this word
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Where it appears
2184 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 4:12 · HNcmpc
Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
1 Chronicles 4:22 · HC/Ncmpc
and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.
1 Chronicles 4:42 · HNcmpa
Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
1 Chronicles 5:18 · HNcmpa
The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, able to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty that were able to go out to war.
1 Chronicles 5:24 · HNcmpa
These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 7:21 · HNcmpc
Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
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Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.