Gematria of Man
14 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “man” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 9,882 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 14
- Occurrences
- 9,882
- Distinct values
- 12
The 14 Hebrew words rendered “man”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 3:16בראשית ג:טזבָנִים
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
First appearance ·Genesis 2:23בראשית ב:כגמֵאִישׁ
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כנֶפֶשׁ
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:26בראשית א:כואָדָם
powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
First appearance ·Genesis 6:4בראשית ו:דהַגִּבֹּרִים
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
First appearance ·Genesis 14:13בראשית יד:יגבַּעֲלֵי
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:27בראשית א:כזזָכָר
properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simply
First appearance ·Exodus 10:11שמות י:יאהַגְּבָרִים
a man in general (singly or collectively)
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 32:26דברים לב:כומֵאֱנוֹשׁ
to hurl; specifically, to shoot; figuratively, to delude or betray (as if causing to fall)
First appearance ·Genesis 29:25בראשית כט:כהרִמִּיתָֽנִי
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
First appearance ·Genesis 1:5בראשית א:האֶחָֽד
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of man?
The Tanakh renders “man” with 14 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: בן = 52, איש = 311, אחד = 13, and 11 more.
How do you say man in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 14 Hebrew words for “man”; the most frequent are בן (bên), 4,931 times; איש (ʼîysh), 2,184 times; אחד (ʼechâd), 970 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.