איש

From Proto-Semitic *ʾš (“man, person”). Compare cognates in other Semitic languages (e.g. Moabite, Aramaic, etc.) ('šm in some).

• IPA^(key): /ʔiʃ/

אִישׁ • ('ish) m (plural indefinite אֲנָשִׁים‎, singular construct אִישׁ־, plural construct אַנְשֵׁי־‎, feminine counterpart אישה \ אִשָּׁה‎)

1. A man, adult male human being.
2. A husband, a male spouse.
   • 2 Kings 4:26, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏עַתָּה רוּץ נָא לִקְרָאתָהּ וֶאֱמָר לָהּ הֲשָׁלוֹם לָךְ הֲשָׁלוֹם לְאִישֵׁךְ הֲשָׁלוֹם לַיָּלֶד וַתֹּאמֶר שָׁלוֹם.‎‎

     atá rúts ná lik'ratáh ve'emár láh hashalóm lákh hashalóm l'ishékh hashalóm layéled vatómer shalóm

     Run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her: Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child?' And she answered: 'It is well.'

3. (slang) Man, dude, used as a term of address.

• (husband): בעל‎ (ba`al)

• אישי‎ (ishí)
• אישיות‎ (ishiyút)

• חבוב‎

אִישׁ • ('ish) m

1. (formal, in negative sentences) Anyone.

   ‏רבים ניסו, אך איש לא הצליח.‎‎

   rabím nisú, akh ish lo hitzlíakh.

   Many tried, but none [literally not a man] succeeded.

• H376 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979