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)

Etymology

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

Where the KJV renders it

• also
• another
• any (man)
• a certain
• champion
• consent
• each
• every (one)
• fellow
• (foot-
• husband-) man
• (good-
• great
• mighty) man
• he
• high (degree)
• him (that is)
• husband
• man(-kind)
• none
• one
• people
• person
• steward
• what (man) soever
• whoso(-ever)
• worthy. Compare H802 (אִשָּׁה)

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

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