Bible Names

Ishi: meaning of the name

Ishi means “salvation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ishi in Hebrew and Greek

יִשְׁעִי H3469

Yishʻîy (yish-ee') — Jishi, the name of four Israelites

from H3467 (יָשַׁע); saving;

People named Ishi in the Bible

Ishi in Scripture

“Ishi” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:31

    And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:20

    And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben–hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben–zoheth.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:42

    And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:24

    And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

  • Hosea 2:16

    And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.