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Concept

Ishi

Name meaning: salvation (Hitchcock)

Key verses

Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(my husband). This word occurs in (Hosea 2:16) It is the Israelite term, in opposition to Baali, the Canaanite term, with the same meaning, though with a significance of its own.

(salutary).

A man of the descendants of Judah, son of Appaim, (1 Chronicles 2:31) one of the great house of Hezron.

In a subsequent genealogy of Judah we find another Ishi, with a son Zoheth. (1 Chronicles 4:20)

Head of a family of the tribe of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:42)

One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)

Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain

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