enosh · man, mortal

What it means

enosh (אֱנוֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “man, mortal”.

The human being seen in his weakness; also people in general.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A person, frail and bound to die.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mortal ×32
• mortals ×7
• humankind ×1
• man ×1
• men ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×18
• Psalms×13
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 32:26

  I would have said, “I will scatter them; I will make cease from humankind their memory,”

• 2 Chronicles 14:11

  Asa cried out to YHWH his Elohim and said, “YHWH, there is none like you to help between the mighty and the one without strength. Help us, YHWH our Elohim, for on you we rely, and in your name we have come against this multitude. YHWH, you are our Elohim; do not let mortal man prevail against you.”

• Job 4:17

  ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than Eloah? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

• Job 5:17

  Look, happy is the mortal whom Eloah reproves; so do not despise the correction of Shaddai.

• Job 7:1

  Is there not service for a mortal on earth, and like the days of a hired worker are his days?

• Job 7:17

  What is a mortal, that you magnify him, and that you set your heart on him,

• Job 9:2

  “Certainly I know that it is so; but how can a mortal be righteous before El?

• Job 10:4

  Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as a mortal sees?

• Job 10:5

  Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the days of a man,

• Job 13:9

  Will it be good when he searches you out? Or as one deceives a mortal, will you deceive him?

• Job 14:19

  water wears away stones; its floods sweep away the dust of the earth; and the hope of a mortal you make perish.

• Job 15:14

  What is the mortal, that he should be pure, and that one born of woman should be righteous?

• Job 25:4

  And how can a mortal be righteous before El, and how can one born of woman be pure?

• Job 25:6

  how much less the mortal, a worm, and a son of man, a grub.”

• Job 28:4

  He breaks open a shaft far from where people live; forgotten by the foot, they hang far from mortals, they sway.

• Job 28:13

  The mortal does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

• Job 32:8

  Surely it is a spirit in the mortal, and the breath of Shaddai that makes them understand.

• Job 33:12

  Look, in this you are not in the right, I answer you, for Eloah is greater than mortal.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to Eloah, and he is pleased with him, and he sees his face with acclamation, and he restores to the mortal his righteousness.

• Job 36:25

  Every human being has gazed on it; the mortal looks at it from afar.

• Psalms 8:4

  what is the mortal that you remember him, and the son of man that you attend to him?

• Psalms 9:19

  Rise up, YHWH; let not the mortal grow strong; let the nations be judged before you.

• Psalms 9:20

  Put terror on them, YHWH; let the nations know that they are mortals. Selah.

• Psalms 10:18

  to do justice to the orphan and the oppressed, so that the mortal of the earth may no longer strike terror.

• Psalms 55:13

  but you, a mortal of my own worth, my companion and my acquaintance,

• Psalms 56:1

  For the director. On The Silent Dove of the Distant Ones. Of David. A Miktam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Show me favor, Elohim, for a mortal tramples me; all the day fighting, he oppresses me.

• Psalms 66:12

  You made a mortal ride over our head; we went through fire and through water, and you brought us out to abundance.

• Psalms 73:5

  In the suffering of mortals they are not, and with human beings they are not struck.

• Psalms 90:3

  You turn back the mortal to dust, and say, “Return, human beings.”

• Psalms 103:15

  A mortal, like grass are his days; like a flower of the field, so he flourishes;

• Psalms 104:15

  and wine gladdens the heart of mortal man, to make the face shine with oil, and bread sustains the heart of mortal man.

• Psalms 144:3

  YHWH, what is a human being that you know him, the son of a mortal that you take account of him?

• Isaiah 8:1

  And YHWH said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet, and write on it with the stylus of a man: ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’”

• Isaiah 13:7

  Therefore all hands will go limp, and every heart of a mortal will melt.

• Isaiah 13:12

  I will make scarce mortals, more than pure gold, and human beings more than the fine gold of Ophir.

• Isaiah 24:6

  Therefore a curse devours the earth, and those who dwell in it are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few mortals are left.

• Isaiah 33:8

  The highways are desolate; the traveler on the path has ceased. He has broken the covenant, he has despised cities, he has no regard for mortals.

• Isaiah 51:7

  Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people with my instruction in their heart: do not fear the reproach of mortals, and at their insults do not be dismayed.

• Isaiah 51:12

  “I, I am the same, he who comforts you. Who are you, that you fear a mortal who will die, and the son of man who is made as grass?

• Isaiah 56:2

  Happy is the mortal who does this, and the son of man who holds fast to it, who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

And 2 more times.