Ishi

My husband, a symbolical name used in Hos. 2:16 (See BAALI.)

1. A man of the descendants of Judah, son of Appaim, (1 Chronicles 2:31) one of the great house of Hezron.
2. In a subsequent genealogy of Judah we find another Ishi, with a son Zoheth. (1 Chronicles 4:20)
3. Head of a family of the tribe of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:42)
4. One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)

1. A man of the descendants of Judah, son of Appaim, (1 Chronicles 2:31) one of the great house of Hezron.
2. In a subsequent genealogy of Judah we find another Ishi, with a son Zoheth. (1 Chronicles 4:20)
3. Head of a family of the tribe of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:42)
4. One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)

ish'-i (yish`i, "salutary"):

(1) A Jerahmeelite (1Ch 2:31); the genealogy may denote his membership by blood, or only by adoption, in the tribe of Judah.

(2) A Judahite (1Ch 4:20).

(3) A Simeonite, whose sons led 500 of their tribe against the Amalekites in Mt. Seir (1Ch 4:42).

(4) One of the chiefs of Manasseh East of the Jordan (1Ch 5:24).

ish'-i, i'-shi ('ishi, "my husband"; Septuagint ho aner mou): The name symbolic of Yahweh's relation to Israel which Hosea (2:16) declares shall be used when Baali, "my lord," has become hateful on account of its associations with the worship of the Baals.