Bible word study

Iysh (Strong’s H376): Meaning in the Bible

Iysh (אִישׁ) is the Hebrew word numbered H376 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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 Bible it is translated also, another, any (man), a certain, champion.

• Original wordאִישׁ
• Transliterationʼîysh
• Pronunciationeesh
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH376
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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

How the King James Bible translates it

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Iysh in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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