58 occurrences

'Man' in the Bible

They replied, "We met a man who told us, "Go back to the king who sent you and ask him, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you're going to consult with Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you won't be getting up from that bed on which you're lying. You will most certainly die!"'"

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon Happen

He told them, "Describe the man who met you and told you these things."

They answered, "The man was a hairy fellow. He wore a leather sash around his waist." The king responded, "It's Elijah, that foreigner!"

Verse ConceptsLeatherClothingBeltsHairsAnimal SkinsHairy PeopleHairclothHair Garments

So the king sent out 50 men, along with their leader. The leader approached Elijah, who was sitting at the top of a hill. He ordered Elijah, "Hey, man of God! The king orders you to come down!"

Verse ConceptsFiftiesMan Going DownMan Of Godorganization

Elijah responded to the leader who was in charge of the 50 soldiers, "So I'm a man of God, am I? If so, may fire fall from heaven and devour you and your 50 soldiers"" Just then, fire fell from heaven and devoured that leader and his 50 soldiers.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From HeavenMan Of God

Later the king tried again he sent another company of 50 soldiers, along with their leader, who ordered Elijah, "Hey, man of God! This is what the king orders: "Come down!'"

Verse ConceptsFiftiesMan Going DownHurrying Others OnMan Of God

Elijah responded to the leader and to his entire company, "So I'm a man of God, am I? If so, may fire fall from heaven and devour you and your 50 soldiers"" Just then, fire fell from heaven and devoured him and his 50 soldiers.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From HeavenMan Of Godhumor

Then the king tried yet again! The king sent a third company of 50 soldiers along with their leader. The third leader went up the hill, approached Elijah, fell on his knees in front of him, and begged him, "Hey, man of God, please treat my life and the lives of these servants of yours as precious!

Verse ConceptsBeggarsKneelingBeggingFiftiesKept Alive By MenThird PersonMan Of God

The angel of the LORD told Elijah, "Go down the hill with that man. Don't be afraid of him!" So Elijah got up and went down with him to meet the king.

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownDo Not Fear MenAngels Activities Among Believers

So they concluded, "This must be blood! The kings must have had one mighty big fight and each man killed the other! So let's go get the battle spoil, Moab!"

Verse ConceptsPlunderingLifebloodKilling One Another

But he replied, "There isn't even one pot left." Then the oil stopped flowing. After this, she went and told the man of God what had happened. So he said, "Go sell the oil, pay your debt, and you and your children will be able to live on the proceeds."

Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money

So she had a talk with her husband. "Look here! I've learned that this is a holy and godly man who comes by here on a regular basis.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual DiscernmentSpiritual PerceptionSpecific Holy IndividualsMan Of GodGodly WomanGodly Man

"No, sir! Please, as a godly man, don't mislead your servant!" But the woman did conceive and did bear a son at that very same time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

Verse ConceptsTime Of YearMan's Words Fulfilled

The woman went upstairs, laid him on the bed belonging to the man of God, and shut the door, leaving him behind as she left.

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

Then she called to her husband and asked him, "Please send me one of the servants, along with one of the donkeys, so I can ride quickly to see that godly man. I'll be right back."

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

So out she went and eventually she arrived at Mount Carmel to visit the man of God.

Verse ConceptsSeeing At A DistanceMan Of God

When the man of God noticed her from a distance, he told his attendant Gehazi, "Look! There's the woman from Shunem! Please run out quickly and greet her. Ask her, "Are things going well with you? Are things going well with your husband? Are things going well with your child?'" She answered Gehazi, "Things are going well."

Verse ConceptsDeath Of A Child

As she came near the man of God on the mountain, she grabbed his feet. When Gehazi intervened to push her away, the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is deeply troubled! The LORD has concealed the thing from me, and hasn't informed me."

Verse ConceptsGraspingLeave Them AloneGod's Things ConcealedMan Of God

Then he went downstairs, walked around back and forth inside the house once, went back up to his upper chamber, and stretched himself over the child again. The young man sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes.

Verse ConceptsNosesPersonal ContactSeven TimesSneezingReceiving Sight

When they served the men, they began to eat the stew. But they cried out, "That pot of stew is deadly, you man of God!" So they couldn't eat the stew.

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathMan Of GodDeath Of A Family MemberWeedcookingpot

Later on, a man arrived from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God some bread as a first fruit offering. He had 20 loaves of barley and ripe ears of corn in his sack. So Elisha said, "Give them to the people so they can eat."

Verse ConceptsBakingTwentyMan Of God

Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in the opinion of his master. He was highly favored, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. Though he was a mighty and valiant man, he was suffering from leprosy.

Verse ConceptsCommanderKingdomsLeprosyOccupationsSoldierssyriaarmy

When the king of Israel read the letter, he ripped his clothes and cried out, "Am I God? Can I kill and give life? Is this man sending me a request to heal a man's leprosy? Let's think about this he's looking for a reason to start a fight with me!"

Verse ConceptsLiteracyGod Giving LifeGod KillingThose Who Tore ClothesGod In Relation To ManGod KillsMan's Relation To God

When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king and asked, "Why did you tear your clothes? Please, let the man come visit me and he will learn that there is a prophet in Israel!"

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesKnowing PeopleThose Who Tore ClothesMan Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

So he went down and plunged himself into the Jordan River seven times, just as the man of God had said, and his flesh rejuvenated like the flesh of a newborn child. And he was clean.

Verse ConceptsSeven TimesHealing LepersIn The Jordanrejuvenation

Naaman went back to the man of God, along with his entire entourage, and stood before him. "Please look!" he said. "I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel! So please, take a present from your servant."

Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofNo Other Is GodMan Of God

After Naaman had gone only a short distance, Gehazi, the attendant to Elisha, the man of God, told himself, "Look how my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman! He declined to take from him what he brought. As the LORD lives, I'm going to run after him and get something from him."

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfIndividuals RunningExemptGreedservanthood

But Elisha responded, "Didn't my heart break as the man was turning from his chariot to greet you? Is now the time to receive money? To receive clothes? And olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen, servants, or female attendants?

Verse ConceptsVineyardUntimelinessNot The TimeNot Receiving

The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" When he was shown the place, he cut off a branch, tossed it there, and made the iron axe head float.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ElishaBuoyancyWhere Are Things?

Then Elisha said, "Pick it up!" So the young man reached out and picked it up.

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

So the man of God sent a message to the king of Israel, warning him, "Keep an eye on that area, because the Arameans are going to be there!"

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsMan Of God

The king of Israel confirmed the matter about which the man of God had warned him. Having been forewarned, he was able to protect himself there on more than one or two occasions.

Verse ConceptsWarning Individuals

Meanwhile, the attendant to the man of God got up early in the morning and went outside, and there were the elite forces, surrounding the city, accompanied by horses and chariots! So Elisha's attendant cried out to him, "Oh no! Master! What will we do!?"

Verse ConceptsMorningEnemies SurroundingAttacking With ChariotsThose Who Rose EarlyEarthly Armiesservanthoodarmy

Then Elisha prayed, asking the LORD, "Please make him able to really see!" And so when the LORD enabled the young man to see, he looked, and there was the mountain, filled with horses and fiery chariots surrounding Elisha!

Verse ConceptsFireSpiritual Blindness, Removal OfChariotsGuardiansHorsesVisionArmies, GodDivine Protection, Examples OfHeavenly ChariotsReceiving SightAngelic GuardianshipEyesarmyreassurance

Then Elisha told the army, "This isn't the way, and this isn't the city! Follow me, and I'll bring you to the man you're seeking." Then he led them to Samaria.

Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house, along with the elders, when the king sent a man to kill him, but before the messenger arrived, Elisha told the elders, "Are you watching how this descendant of murderers has ordered my head be cut off? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it to shut them out! Don't you hear the sound of his master's feet right behind him?"

Verse ConceptsMessengerRemoving HeadsShutting DoorsKilling ProphetsSkullsSoundThe Elders Gathered

But the royal attendant on whom the king depended responded to the man of God: "Look here! Even if the LORD were to open a window in the sky, how could this happen?" He replied, "No, you look! You'll see it with your eyes, but you won't eat any of it!"

Verse ConceptsElisha, Prophecies OfArmsUnbelief, As Response To GodUnbelief, Shown ByUnbelief, Examples OfSkepticismWindows Of HeavenImpossible For GodOther SupportingLooking At God's WorksQuestioning Godtomorrowroyalty

Meanwhile, the king appointed the same royal attendant on whom he depended to take control of the city gate, but the people trampled him to death in the gate, just as the man of God had told the king when the king came down to him.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfTrampling PeopleDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsOther Supporting

It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king: "At about this time tomorrow, in Samaria's city gate, a seah of finely ground flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel."

Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrow

But the royal attendant on whom the king depended responded to the man of God: "Look here! Even if the LORD were to make a window in the sky, how could this happen?" He replied, "No, you look! You'll see it with your eyes, but you won't eat any of it!"

Verse ConceptsWindows Of HeavenImpossible For GodLooking At God's Works

So the woman followed the instructions given to her by the man of God, and she went to the territory of the Philistines to live for seven years with her household.

Verse ConceptsSeven YearsMan Of God

The king was talking with Gehazi, the attendant of the man of God. He had asked Gehazi, "Please tell me about all of the great things that Elisha has done."

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

Later on, Elisha traveled to Damascus. King Ben-hadad of Aram was ill, but someone informed him, "The man of God has come here!"

Verse ConceptsSick IndividualsMan Of Godsyriadamascus

So the king told Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go meet the man of God. Inquire of the LORD through him and ask, "Will I recover from this sickness?'"

Verse ConceptsMan Of GodIllness

So Hazael went out to meet with him and took a gift with him 40 camel loads filled with samples of everything good in Damascus. He approached the man of God and said, "Your son King Ben-hadad from Aram has sent me to you to ask you, "Will I recover from this sickness?'"

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanPresents

Then Elisha looked steadily at Hazael until Hazael grew ashamed, and then the man of God began to cry.

Verse ConceptsembarrassmentWeeping

So the young man, who was an attendant to the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

So Jehu got up and went inside the house, and the young man told him, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: "I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD that is, over Israel.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

As Jehu was coming out to his master's attendants, one of them asked him, "Is everything all right? Why did this maniac visit you?" "You know the man and how he speculates," Jehu replied.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleMadmenReckoned Insane

At this, each man quickly grabbed his own garment, placed it under him at the top of the stairs, sounded a trumpet, and announced, "Jehu is king!"

Verse ConceptsCloaksStairwaysTrumpetTrumpets For CelebrationMaking Kings

And so they proclaimed it. Jehu sent the proclamation throughout Israel, and all the Baal worshipers came. There wasn't a single man left who failed to come. When they entered Baal's temple, it was filled from one end to the other.

Verse ConceptsTemples, HeathenFilling HousesFollowers Of Baal

As soon as he had completed the burnt offering, Jehu ordered the guards and the officers, "Go in and execute them. Don't let even one man escape." So they executed them with swords, and the guards and the officers threw the bodies out and proceeded into the inner room of Baal's temple,

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringShrinesNo EscapeApproval To Kill

Jehoash spoke to the priests about all of the proceeds of the consecrated gifts that were being brought into the LORD's Temple, cash from every man who was traveling through the area, cash obtained by personal assessment, and all the cash that came through voluntary gifts into the LORD's Temple:

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsMoney For The TempleMoney ManagementSaving Moneypriests

At this, the man of God became angry at him and told him, "You should have struck five or six times! Then you would have attacked Aram until you would have destroyed it! But as it is now, you'll defeat Aram only three times!"

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesOvercoming Hard Timessyria

One day while some Israelis were burying a man, they saw some marauders, so they threw the man into Elisha's grave. But when the man fell against Elisha's remains, he revived and rose to his feet.

Verse ConceptsBodyMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of ElishaBonesAnother's Burial Placerevival

and she told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Tell the man who sent you to me:

As Josiah turned around, he observed the graves located there on the mountain, so he sent for and recovered the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar to defile it, in keeping with the message from the LORD that the godly man had proclaimed when he was declaring these things.

Verse ConceptsTombsWord Of GodBonesBurning Idolatrous Things

He asked, "What is this monument that I'm looking at?" The men who lived in that city answered him, "It's the grave of that godly man who came from Judah and predicted these things that you've done against the altar at Bethel!"

Verse ConceptsBurial Of Unnamed People

Bible Theasaurus

Blade (28 instances)
Bully (2 instances)
Equip (8 instances)
Fellow (213 instances)
Generation (166 instances)
Gentleman (1 instance)
Mankind (130 instances)
Master (460 instances)
Mister (4 instances)
Workman (25 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּבּר גּבּור 
Gibbowr 
Usage: 159

ἀνθρώπινος 
Anthropinos 
man's , after the manner of man , of man , common to man , mankind 9
Usage: 7

οὐδείς 
Oudeis 
no man , nothing , none , no , any man , any , man , neither any man ,
Usage: 160

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

φανερόω 
Phaneroo 
Usage: 44

ἄῤῥην αρσην 
Arrhen 
Usage: 7

νέος νεώτερος 
Neos 
Usage: 11

τοσοῦτος 
Tosoutos 
so much , so great , so many , so long , as large , these many , so many things
Usage: 17

בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

זקן 
Zaqen 
Usage: 178

ἀρσενοκοίτης 
Arsenokoites 
Usage: 2

πόσος 
Posos 
Usage: 9

πρεσβύτης 
Presbutes 
Usage: 3

τρόπος 
Tropos 
as Trans , even as 9 9 , way , means , even as 9 , in like manner as 9 , manner , conversation
Usage: 11

ὡσαύτως 
Hosautos 
Usage: 12

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אביון 
'ebyown 
Usage: 61

אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

אדּרת 
'addereth 
Usage: 12

אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

אישׁ 
'iysh 
man , men , one , husband , any ,
Usage: 692

אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

אנשׁ אנשׁ 
'enash (Aramaic) 
Usage: 25

ארח 
'arach 
Usage: 5

ארח 
'orach 
Usage: 59

בּחר בּחוּר 
Bachuwr 
young man , the chosen , young , not translated
Usage: 46

בּרר 
Barar 
Usage: 17

בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

גּבר 
G@bar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 21

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

גּלגּלת 
Gulgoleth 
Usage: 12

דּבּר דּבר 
Dober 
Usage: 3

דּוּדי 
Duwday 
Usage: 7

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

דּמוּת 
D@muwth 
Usage: 25

דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

דּת 
Dath 
Usage: 22

המּה הם 
hem 
Usage: 517

המן המון 
Hamown 
Usage: 83

זכר 
Zakar 
Usage: 83

חיל 
Chayil 
Usage: 243

חכם 
Chakam 
Usage: 137

חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 94

חסיד 
Chaciyd 
Usage: 32

חצי המּנחתּי 
Chatsiy ham-M@nachti 
Usage: 1

חקּה 
Chuqqah 
Usage: 104

ילד 
Yeled 
Usage: 89

כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

כּה 
Koh 
Usage: 577

כּן 
Ken 
Usage: 6

כּנמא 
K@nema' (Aramaic) 
thus , so , sort , manner
Usage: 5

מאכל 
Ma'akal 
Usage: 30

מוּת 
Muwth 
die , dead , slay , death , surely , kill , dead man , dead body , in no wise ,
Usage: 839

מן 
man 
Usage: 14

מנה 
maneh 
Usage: 5

מנוח 
manowach 
Usage: 18

מנחת 
manachath 
Usage: 4

מנשּׁה 
M@nashsheh 
Usage: 146

מנשּׁי 
M@nashshiy 
Usage: 4

מסכּן 
Micken 
Usage: 4

מעטפה 
Ma`ataphah 
Usage: 1

מעיל 
M@`iyl 
Usage: 28

משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

נבל 
Nabal 
Usage: 18

נער 
Na`ar 
Usage: 239

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

עברי 
`Ibriy 
Usage: 34

עלם 
`elem 
Usage: 2

עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

עשׁיר 
`ashiyr 
Usage: 23

צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

רב 
Rob 
Usage: 153

רבב 
Rabab 
Usage: 19

רבבה 
R@babah 
Usage: 16

רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

רוּשׁ 
Ruwsh 
Usage: 24

רכּב 
Rakkab 
Usage: 3

רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

שׂגּיא 
Saggiy' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 13

שׁגע 
Shaga` 
mad , mad man
Usage: 7

שׁכּר שׁכּור 
Shikkowr 
Usage: 13

שׂכיר 
Sakiyr 
Usage: 17

תּורה 
Towrah 
Usage: 1

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ἀγωγή 
Agoge 
Usage: 1

ἀκρίβεια 
Akribeia 
Usage: 1

ἀλλότριος 
Allotrios 
Usage: 10

ἀνά 
Ana 
by , apiece , every man , each , several , two and two , among , through , between , by , in
Usage: 10

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