Words the Bible translates as men
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
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- kinsman, blood relative: the members of one's own family or clan
- enoshאֱנוֹשׁa human being; a person, especially in poetry, where the word often hints at how small and short-lived a person is.
- ba'alבַּעַלthe citizens or ruling men of a town: the property-holding men who belong to a place and hold its affairs
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- owner: the person to whom a thing, animal, property, or even a debt belongs and who answers for it
- husband: a woman's married man, the one to whom she belongs in marriage
- the one marked by something: a person, or even a creature or object, defined by the thing, trait, or role named after this word
- zakharזָכָרmale: of the male sex, as opposed to female, whether of people or of animals
- arrēn, arsēnἄρρην, ἄρσηνmale: of the male sex, whether named as the category set beside female or as a particular male individual
- gaverגָּבֶרa man: the grown male, named with a poetic dignity by a word rooted in strength
- enashאֱנָשׁhuman being; mankind: a person, or humanity as a whole, set apart from God and from the animals
- matמַתmen, people: an old poetic word for a group of men or people, found almost only in the plural and mostly in set phrases
- gevarגְּבַרman: an adult male human being, an individual man
- gabbayגַּבַּי`men`not studied yet
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