Definition

a man in general (singly or collectively)

Etymology

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

Where the KJV renders it

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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.