Bible dictionaries
Ishi
What Bible dictionaries say about “Ishi”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828Smith’s Bible Dictionary
(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.
Additional entry
(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)
William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
The article in Smith