ish identifies male persons, individually or as groups, including people marked by action, role, or relation.

The supplied verses use the term for male persons, both individually and in groups: fighters, household members, prophets, unnamed people in a narrative, and persons characterized by a following relation or description.

1. Male persons, individually or in groups · dominant

   The singular form identifies particular or indefinite male persons in narrative and comparison: in 1 Kings 20:20 the APB renders the clause “each man struck down his opponent,” and in 1 Kings 18:44 it describes a cloud “like a man's palm.” Plural forms identify groups of male persons, as in 1 Chronicles 5:18, where the APB renders valiant men equipped for battle; construct forms also occur in descriptions such as “a man of rest” in 1 Chronicles 22:9 and “the man of God” in 1 Chronicles 23:14.

   1 Kings 20:201 Kings 18:441 Chronicles 5:181 Chronicles 22:91 Chronicles 23:141 Chronicles 16:3

In the Anselm Paraphrase: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with expressions such as “man,” “men,” and “each man,” while also using descriptive phrases such as “man of rest.” Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these English expressions only indicate how the surrounding clauses are presented.