אִישׁ ʼîysh

Meaning

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)

In the King James Version: 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).

Derivation: contracted for H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ) (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant);

Where it is used

• Job 2:12 When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
• Job 9:32 For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
• Job 11:2 “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
• Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
• Job 12:10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
• Job 12:14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
• Job 14:12 so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
• Job 15:16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
• Job 22:8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
• Job 31:35 (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
• Job 32:13 So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
• Job 32:21 I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
• Job 34:11 For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
• Job 34:21 For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
• Job 34:23 For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
• Job 35:8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
• Job 37:20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
• Job 38:26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
• Job 41:17 They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
• Job 42:11 All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
• Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Psalms 4:2 How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
• Psalms 5:6 You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
• Psalms 12:2 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
• Psalms 18:48 who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
• Psalms 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
• Psalms 25:12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
• Psalms 31:20 You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
• Psalms 34:12 Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
• Psalms 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
• Psalms 37:37 Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
• Psalms 38:14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
• Psalms 39:6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
• Psalms 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Psalms 41:9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
• Psalms 43:1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
• Psalms 49:2 both low and high, rich and poor alike.
• Psalms 49:7 No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
• Psalms 49:16 Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.
• Psalms 62:3 How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
• Psalms 62:9 Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Psalms 62:12 and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
• Psalms 64:6 They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
• Psalms 78:25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
• Psalms 80:17 Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.
• Psalms 87:5 And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
• Psalms 92:6 A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
• Psalms 105:17 He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.
• Psalms 109:16 For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
• Psalms 112:1 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
• Psalms 112:5 It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
• Psalms 140:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
• Psalms 140:4 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
• Psalms 140:11 May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
• Psalms 141:4 Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
• Psalms 147:10 He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
• Proverbs 2:12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
• Proverbs 3:31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
• Proverbs 5:21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
• Proverbs 6:11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.