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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ISHI (my husband).The name which Hosea (2:16) recommends Israel to apply to J″ [Note: Jahweh.] instead of Baali (my lord).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. 1Ch_2:31; 1Ch_2:9-13; 1Ch_2:31.
2. 1Ch_4:20.
3. 1Ch_4:42.
4. 1Ch_5:24.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
I'shi. (salutary).
1. A man of the descendants of Judah, son of Appaim, 1Ch_2:31, one of the great house of Hezron.
2. In a subsequent genealogy of Judah, we find another Ishi, with a son, Zoheth. 1Ch_4:20.
3. Head of a family of the tribe of Simeon. 1Ch_4:42.
4. One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. 1Ch_5:24.
(my husband).
5. This word occurs in Hos_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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Ishi
(Heb. Ishi', אַישַׁי, my husband; Sept. ὁ ἀνὴρ μου, Vulg. Vir meus), a metaphorical name prescribed for himself by Jehovah, to be used by the Jewish Church, expressive of her future fidelity and privilege of intimacy, in contrast with the spirit of legalism indicated by the title Baali, my master (Hos_2:16).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.