Ishtob = "man of Tob"

a region beyond Jordan, north or northeast of Gilead

Root √אישׁ: אישׁ אושׁ אִישׁ אִישׁ אִנְשְׁ אנשׁ אֲנָשִׁים אִשָּׁה אִנְשָׁה אישׁ אישׁ אִישׁ י ִ ֵ אִישִׁים אִישׁ אִשָּׁה אֱנוֹשׁ אישׁ אשׁ אסם אנסם אִישׁ אֱנוֹשׁ אישׁ יְהוֹאָשׁ אנשׁ אֱנוֹשׁ inš Arabic Arabic Arabic išanu be strong strong ,(Stem assumed in Thes for; existence & mng. somewhat dub. Thes (Add) & most derivefr. √(q. v.) In favour are pl. fem.= , lack of proven √, & lack of clear parallels forin cogn. lang. Against the deriv. offr.is the vocalization (, and that fully written, not), maintained even with suff. the (rare) pl. the impossibility of derivingfrom same √ (fr.), the existence ofas parallel form, and the (exceptional) parallel Aram.(Inscr. of Carpentras), also Ar.(cf. Frey) ∥; MI, SI, Ph.are not decisive; Sab. has hoth&; the former app. =, the latter; but on former cf. DHMZK 1884. 360 & Sab. Den km. 37. On the whole, probability seems to favour √; Thes gave mng.; Dl HA 9. Pr 161 comp. As. ; (Dl W. p. 244), & n.pr.; cf. also Prät LOPh. Feb. 1884; otherwise DHM l.c. & ZMG 1883, 330 & esp. Nö ZMG 1886, 739 Lag BN 68; cf. also Wetzst in De Psalmen. ed. 4. p. 888 al. v. also,

אִישׁ n.m man vir 2166.(=)