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title: אֱנוֹשׁ — man · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֱנוֹשׁ (582), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 42 times: man. BDB 1906: n.m. man, mankind. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֱנוֹשׁ

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«אֱנוֹשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **man** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 42 times · **Key:** 582 · **BDB:** אֱנוֹשׁ

### Glosses

humankind (10); a.person (7); of.humankind (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

man [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/582/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. man, mankind [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/582/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 15:14 man, mankind, mostly poet. (18 times Jb, 13 times ψ, etc.) (Arabic أُنَاسٌ (coll.), Aramaic אֱנָשׁ, ܐ݈݇ܢܳܫܳܐ (coll.), Nab. אנוש, Palm. אנש, Sab. אנס DHMZMG 1883, 330, also Arabic نَاسٌ, Assyrian nišu, people, \& cf. tenišêtu, humanity, human race, v. COTGloss. sub אנשׁ \& נשׁ \& HptKAT 2 497)—abs. Is 8:1 +; cstr. Je 20:10;— of individ. Jb 5:17; 13:9 ψ 55:14, cf. Is 13:12 (‖ אָדָם) 56:2 (‖ בֶּן־אדם); Je 20:10 א׳ שְׁלֹמִי man of my peace, i.e. my friend. coll. men Is 24:6; 33:8; 51:7 ψ 66:12; = men in general, ordinary men ψ 73:5 cf. חֶרֶט א׳ i.e. a common stylus Is 8:1 (v. אַמַּת אִישׁ Dt 3:11). man, mankind Dt 32:26; Jb 7:1; 14:19; 28:4, 13; 32:8; 33:26; 36:25 (‖ אָדָם \& אֲנָשִׁים v 24) ψ 56:2; especially opp. God Jb 4:17 (‖ גֶּבֶר) 7:17; 9:2; 10:4, 5; 15:14; 25:4; 33:12; 2 Ch 14:10; ψ 8:5 (‖ בֶּן־אָדָם) so Is 51:12; ψ 9:20, 21, 90:3 (‖ בְּנֵי־אָדָם); 103:15; בֶּן־א׳ 144:3 (‖ אָדָם); cf. כִּי־א׳ רִמָּה וּבֶן־אָדָם תּוֹלֵעָה Jb 25:6; א׳ מִן־הָאָרֶץ ψ 10:18; כָּל־לְבַב א׳ Is 13:7 cf. ψ 104:15(×2). אֲנָשִׁים v. אִושׁ (p. 35).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֱנוֹשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/582/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 32:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.26/)

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אָמַ֖רְתִּי אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם אַשְׁבִּ֥יתָה מֵאֱנ֖וֹשׁ זִכְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.said I will.cut.them.in.pieces I.will.make.cease from humankind remembrance their

*JPS 1917:* I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;

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[Job 25:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.25.6/)

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אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אֱנ֣וֹשׁ רִמָּ֑ה וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* indeed? (dm) a.person a.maggot and a.child of.humankind a.worm

*JPS 1917:* How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot!

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