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1 Samuel 27:11
“And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H376 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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)
- Derivation
- contracted for H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ) (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant);
- KJV renderings
- 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).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- אִ֨ישׁ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 2,187 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:23Genesis 2:24Genesis 3:6Genesis 3:16Genesis 4:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אִישׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.