Lexical Definition

‎אִשׁ‎ ʼish (eesh) there is ^H:Adv
identical (in origin and formation) with ‎אֵשׁ‎

are there, none can. Compare ‎יֵשׁ‎.

• entity, used only adverbially, there is or are

1) there is, there are

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אִשׁ‎ 2Sam 14:19; Mic 6:10, softer form for the usual ‎יֵשׁ‎ (q. v.), there is, are. (compare Aramaic ‎אִתַי‎, Arabic ; and on the softening of ye, yi to 'î, see Ew^{§ 53 c} Ol^{p. 425} Nö^{§ 40 c}.)

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