“Ishi” means salutary; my husband

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)

5. This word occurs in (Hosea 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.