אֱנָשׁ
ʼĕnâsh · H606 · Aramaic · 25 occurrences
Meanings
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Human being as an individual or as a class of living creatures; associated with mortality (human, humankind, human being(s))
ExamplesEzra 4:11 this is a copy of the letter which they sent to him: “To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men of the region beyond the Euphrates River; and now
Ezra 6:11 “And I issued a decree that any person who violates this decree, a timber shall be pulled out of his house and he shall be impaled on it; and his house shall be turned into a refuse heap on account of this.
Daniel 2:10 The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is no person on earth who could declare the matter to the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲבַרbeyond 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 6 groups
- בְּעָאto ask, to seek 1
- חֲוָאshew 1
- יְכֵלbe able 1
- קְרָאcall 1
- שְׁמַעhear 1
- שְׁנָאalter 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲבַדservant 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- לְבַשׁclothe 1
- נְפַלfall 1
- סְגִדworship 1
- רְמָהcast 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִיתַיart thou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 12
- כlike/as 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
12 occurrences in 8 groups
- מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 4
- בֵּןchild 2
- בַּרson 1
- זְרַעseed 1
- יַדhand, power 1
- לְבַבheart 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos · G444 · people, persons, mankind, man
- Greek ἄνθρωπος renders Aramaic אֱנָשׁ as direct translation equivalent for 'human being/man' in Daniel's Aramaic sections, representing standard cross-linguistic equivalence for the anthropological term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- אֱנָשׁ (Aramaic) is a general term for a person or man, as the decree that no person on earth could reveal the king's secret.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H606. enash אֱנָשׁ noun masculine man, mankind; — absolute ׳א Dan 2:10 +; emphatic…
אֱנָשׁ noun masculine man, mankind; — absolute ׳א Dan 2:10 +; emphatic אֲנָשָׁא Dan 2:38 +, so Qr Dan 4:13; Dan 4:14 ( > Kt אנושׁא K§ 57f); so Nabataean אנוש often Lzb222 Cooke219 SAC22): plural אֲנָשָׁים Dan 4:14 (Hebraism, M53* proposes אֲנָשָׁא); —
1 man, human being, Dan 2:10; Dan 3:10; Dan 4:13; Dan 5:5, Dan 5:7 (twice in verse); Dan 6:13 (twice in verse); Dan 7:4 (twice in verse); Dan 7:8; Ezr 6:11; so בַּראֱֿנָשׁ Dan 7:13 a son of man, human being (see especially DrDan 102; DB SON OF MAN).
2 collective men, people, Ezr 4:11; Dan 4:14a; Dan 4:22 (twice in verse); Dan 4:29 (twice in verse); Dan 4:30; Dan 5:21, compare plural Dan 4:14; א ׳ןְרַע Dan 2:43 i.e. human offspring; אֲנָשָׁא בְּנֵי sons of men, = men, Dan 2:38; Dan 5:21.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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