Strong's Hebrew · H582

אֱנוֹשׁ

ʼĕnôwsh · en-oshe'

another, [idiom] (blood-) thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, [idiom] in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ([idiom] of them), [phrase] stranger, those, [phrase] their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word. Compare H376 (אִישׁ).

Definition

a man in general (singly or collectively)

Derivation

from H605 (אָנַשׁ); properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified H120 (אָדָם)); hence,

Appears 541 times in Scripture

Genesis 14:24

I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion.”

Genesis 17:27

And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.

Genesis 12:20

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.

Genesis 18:22

And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

Genesis 17:23

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

Genesis 18:2

And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Genesis 19:4

Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:16

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.

Genesis 13:8

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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