H606 — אֱנָשׁ (ʼĕnâsh / enash)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H606
Original: אֱנָשׁ
Transliteration: ʼĕnâsh (enash)
Pronunciation: en-awsh'
Part of Speech: Masculine noun
Language: Aramaic
Cognate of: Hebrew אֱנוֹשׁ (enosh, H582) — "mortal man"
Occurrences: 19 unique verses (25 tokens)
Books: 2 (Daniel, Ezra — the Aramaic portions)
First Occurrence: Ezr 4:11 — "Thy servants the men (enash) on this side the river"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Note: Filename uses H-prefix per user-requested convention, though lexicon flags this as Aramaic.

Lexicon Definition¶

(Aramaic) or אֱנַשׁ ʼĕnash; (Aramaic), corresponding to H582 (אֱנוֹשׁ); a man: — man, whosoever.

The word is the Aramaic counterpart of Hebrew enosh, built on the same Semitic root conveying humanity in its frailty/mortality. In the Aramaic sections of Daniel and Ezra it functions as the ordinary word for "man/human being," often in generic, distributive, or collective senses ("men in general," "mankind," "anyone").

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
of men	6	31.6%
man's	3	15.8%
men	3	15.8%
man	2	10.5%
of man	2	10.5%
or man	2	10.5%
Whosoever / whosoever	2	10.5%
a man / as a man / the men	3	15.8%

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Total Verses	Per 100 Verses
Daniel	17	357	4.8
Ezra	2	280	0.7

Because enash is Aramaic, it only appears in the Aramaic sections of the OT: Ezra 4:8–6:18; 7:12–26 and Daniel 2:4b–7:28. Within Daniel it is concentrated in the Aramaic court narratives and the night-vision of ch. 7. Absent from ch. 8 onward (Daniel switches back to Hebrew, where H582 enosh appears in 8:17).

Semantic Categories¶

1. Humanity in General / Mankind (collective)¶

Used for the human race as a class, often contrasted with beasts or with divine realities.

Dan 2:38 — "wheresoever the children of men (enash) dwell, the beasts of the field..."
Dan 4:17 — "the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men (enash)"
Dan 4:25 — "till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men (enash)"
Dan 2:43 — "they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men (enash)"

2. Humans Distinguished From / Contrasted With Beasts¶

A recurring Danielic motif — human estate vs. bestial estate (Nebuchadnezzar's humiliation; the beasts of ch. 7).

Dan 4:16 — "Let his heart be changed from man's (enash), and let a beast's heart be given unto him"
Dan 4:33 — "he was driven from men (enash) ... till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers"
Dan 5:21 — "he was driven from the sons of men (enash); and his heart was made like the beasts"
Dan 7:4 — "made stand upon the feet as a man (enash), and a man's heart was given to it"

3. An Individual / "A Man" (a particular person or any single person)¶

Generic singular — "a man," "any man," sometimes approaching indefinite pronoun.

Dan 2:10 — "There is not a man (enash) upon the earth that can shew the king's matter"
Dan 5:5 — "came forth fingers of a man's (enash) hand, and wrote"
Dan 3:10 — "every man (enash) that shall hear the sound of the cornet..."

4. Distributive / Indefinite ("whosoever," "any")¶

Legal/decree language: "any person whoever."

Ezr 6:11 — "whosoever (enash) shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house"
Dan 6:7 — "whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man (enash) for thirty days"
Dan 6:12 — "any God or man (enash) within thirty days"

5. "Son of Man" — Human-like Figure in Vision¶

The decisive phrase kebar enash ("like a son of man") appears in Dan 7:13, and the parallel description in 7:4 (beast "made stand upon the feet as a man") and 7:8 ("eyes like the eyes of man") use the same root. In 7:13 enash denotes the apparent form of the heavenly figure brought before the Ancient of Days.

Dan 7:13 — "[one] like the Son of man (kebar enash) came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days"
Dan 7:8 — "in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man (enash), and a mouth speaking great things"
Dan 7:4 — "made stand upon the feet as a man (enash)"

6. Residents / Subjects (used as plural collective in administrative contexts)¶

Ezr 4:11 — "Thy servants the men (enash) on this side the river"

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
עַד (ʻad)	H5705	9x (47%)	"until / so that men may know" — clause linking enash to divine revelation or decree
כֹּל (kol)	H3606	7x (37%)	"all men / every man" — universalizing scope
מֶלֶךְ (melek)	H4430	7x (37%)	"king ... men" — royal decree addressing subjects
מַלְכוּ (malkûw)	H4437	6x (32%)	"kingdom of men" (Dan 4:17, 25, 32; 5:21)
דֵּן (dên)	H1836	5x (26%)	demonstrative "this [matter] ... men"
הָוָא (hăwâʼ)	H1934	5x (26%)	copula "be/become" — stative descriptions of men
חֵיוָא (chêyvâʼ)	H2423	5x (26%)	"beast/beasts" — the recurrent man/beast contrast
שַׁלִּיט (shallîyṭ)	H7990	5x (26%)	"ruleth ... over men" — divine sovereignty formula
שָׁמַיִן (shâmayin)	H8065	5x (26%)	"heaven ... men" — heaven/earth axis
טְרַד (ṭerad)	H2957	4x (21%)	"driven from men" — Nebuchadnezzar expulsion formula
יְדַע (yedaʻ)	H3046	4x (21%)	"that men may know" — purpose of divine acts
עִלַּי (ʻillay)	H5943	4x (21%)	"Most High ... kingdom of men"
קוּם (qûwm)	H6966	4x (21%)	"set up / arise" — kings rising among men

Signature phrase: malkûth enasha — "the kingdom of men" (Dan 4:17, 25, 32; 5:21), a theological formula declaring that the Most High rules over human political kingdoms.

Word Family / Cognates¶

H582 אֱנוֹשׁ (enosh) — Hebrew cognate; "mortal man, mankind" (used 42x in OT, including Dan 8:17 "son of man" [ben-enosh])
H1400 גְּבַר (gebar) — Aramaic "man, certain one" (21x in Aramaic OT); a near-synonym often used alongside enash
H376 אִישׁ / H582 ʼish — Hebrew "man (individual)"; Aramaic enash fills the same semantic slot in Aramaic portions

Synonyms¶

No clean synonym set returned by search_relationships.py for H606.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms returned by search_relationships.py for H606.

Word	Strong's	Shared KJV	Key Difference
אָדַם (ʼâdam)	H120	"men, man, of men"	Hebrew; emphasizes humanity as created from the ground (adamah); far more frequent (~550x)
אִישׁ (ʼîysh)	H376	"man, men, a man"	Hebrew; individual male/husband/person; not Aramaic
אֱנוֹשׁ (ʼĕnôwsh)	H582	"man, of man, man's"	Hebrew cognate; stresses mortality/frailty; used in Dan 8:17 where Aramaic switches back to Hebrew
גֶּבֶר (geber)	H1397	"man, men"	Hebrew; "strong/valiant man"
גְּבַר (gᵉbar)	H1400	"certain, man, men"	Aramaic counterpart to geber; often co-occurs with enash in Daniel
בַּר (bar)	H1247	"son"	Aramaic "son"; paired with enash in the phrase bar enash (Dan 7:13) = "son of man"

Dan 7:13 uses bar (H1247) + enash (H606) → "son of man," where bar functions as "son (of)" and enash supplies "man/humankind." The kebar enash ("like a son of man") construction describes form/likeness rather than lineage.

UBS Semantic Domains¶

Code	Domain Label	Notes
001002007	People	Matches enash as the ordinary Aramaic term for a human being, whether individual, collective, or distributive ("whosoever").

LXX Mapping¶

Greek Equivalent	Strong's	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos)	G444	16	4.47	Primary LXX rendering; generic "human being"
ἐκδιώκω (ekdiṓkō)	G1559	4	8.47	Context-driven ("driven from men")
δοκέω (dokéō)	G1380	4	7.57	Contextual
χόρτος (chórtos)	G5528	4	6.99	"grass" — paired in Nebuchadnezzar passages
θηρίον (thēríon)	G2342	5	6.02	"beast" — recurrent contrastive partner
ὕψιστος (hupsistos)	G5310	4	6.63	"Most High" — co-occurs in "kingdom of men" formula
κυριεύω (kyrieúō)	G2961	3	7.01	"rule over" — co-occurs with "kingdom of men"

In Theodotion-Daniel, Dan 7:13 kebar enash is rendered ὡς υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου ("as a son of man") — the exact phrase cited in Matt 24:30; 26:64; Mark 13:26; Rev 1:13; 14:14.