Know the Word.

Hebrew word

ʼîysh

eesh

אִישׁ

What it means

a man as an individual or a male person

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)

Where it comes from

contracted for ʼĕnôwsh (אֱנוֹשׁ) (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)

How the King James translates it

  • man973
  • men199
  • one188
  • husband64
  • any27
  • none12
  • whosoever10
  • every8

Every place it appears 1579

Song of Solomon3:88:78:11
Joel2:72:8
Obadiah1:9
Zephaniah2:113:6