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Ishi

4 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.

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Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) (entry 2) · 4 references
(salutary).
  1. A man of the descendants of Judah, son of Appaim, (1 Chronicles 2:31) one of the great house of Hezron.
  2. In a subsequent genealogy of Judah we find another Ishi, with a son Zoheth. (1 Chronicles 4:20)
  3. Head of a family of the tribe of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:42)
  4. One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references

ish'-i, i'-shi ('ishi, "my husband"; Septuagint ho aner mou): The name symbolic of Yahweh's relation to Israel which Hosea (2:16) declares shall be used when Baali, "my lord," has become hateful on account of its associations with the worship of the Baals.

Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.

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