Word study
Anyone
14 Hebrew and 8 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “anyone”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “anyone” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 34 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun · Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
Genesis 4:15 “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
Exodus 12:19 For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
- אִישׁ îshmantranslated this way 33 times of its 1,399 uses · Strong’s H376Noun · Translated: man 650, men 198, one 79, each 79Full study and all 1,278 verses →
Exodus 30:33 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
Leviticus 7:8 As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.
- אָדָם âdâmman, mankindtranslated this way 8 times of its 509 uses · Strong’s H120Noun · Translated: man 311, men 75, mankind 21, human 18Full study and all 489 verses →
Genesis 9:5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Leviticus 13:9 When anyone develops a skin disease, he must be brought to the priest.
- בּוֹא bôcome in, come, go in, gotranslated this way 4 times of its 2,442 uses · Strong’s H935Verb · Translated: come 358, came 298, bring 209, brought 201Full study and all 2,217 verses →
Leviticus 14:46 Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
- אֲשֶׁר ăsherparticle of relationtranslated this way 3 times of its 3,225 uses · Strong’s H834Pronoun · Translated: that 886, who 451, as 247, which 160Full study and all 2,844 verses →
Genesis 31:32 If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
- נֶפֶשׁ nepheshsoul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passiontranslated this way 3 times of its 666 uses · Strong’s H5315Noun · Translated: soul 178, life 119, lives 30, person 22Full study and all 622 verses →
Leviticus 2:1 “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
Numbers 19:22 Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
- מוּת mûthdietranslated this way 3 times of its 771 uses · Strong’s H4191Verb · Translated: die 198, died 152, dead 89, put to death 47Full study and all 694 verses →
- נָקָה nâqâhbe empty(?), cleantranslated this way 2 times of its 36 uses · Strong’s H5352Verb · Translated: go unpunished 10, leave anyone unpunished 2, leave the guilty unpunished 2, acquit 2Full study and all 32 verses →
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
- נָשָׂא nâsâlift, take, carrytranslated this way 2 times of its 642 uses · Strong’s H5375Verb · Translated: bear 49, lift 45, lifted 41, carried 38Full study and all 601 verses →
Leviticus 11:28 and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:40 Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.
- יָד yâdhandtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,403 uses · Strong’s H3027Noun · Translated: hand 664, hands 349, through 64, power 22Full study and all 1,290 verses →
- אֵת êthwithtranslated this way 2 times of its 640 uses · Strong’s H854Preposition · Translated: with 144, with you 64, with him 62, with me 35Full study and all 585 verses →
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 2 times of its 79 uses · Strong’s H3606Noun · Translated: all 19, any 8, and all 7, whole 5Full study and all 62 verses →
Ezra 7:26 If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
Daniel 6:7 All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.
- מִי mîwho?translated this way 2 times of its 423 uses · Strong’s H4310Interrogative · Translated: who 242, whom 31, and who 21, Whoever 14Full study and all 341 verses →
Job 13:19 Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
Greek words (New Testament)
- τὶς tìsany one, some onetranslated this way 98 times of its 449 uses · Strong’s G5100Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun · Translated: some 96, anyone 96, a 65, anything 30Full study and all 420 verses →
- ὅς hóswho, which, what, thattranslated this way 25 times of its 866 uses · Strong’s G3739Personal / Relative Pronoun · Translated: which 107, what 107, whom 100, who 94Full study and all 777 verses →
- ὁ hothetranslated this way 18 times of its 9,898 uses · Strong’s G3588Article · Translated: the 6,410, of the 748, of 344, who 329Full study and all 5,117 verses →
- πᾶς pâsall, the whole, every kind oftranslated this way 13 times of its 1,133 uses · Strong’s G3956Adjective · Translated: all 462, everyone 131, every 116, everything 87Full study and all 998 verses →
- ἔπω épōto speak or say (by word or writing)translated this way 3 times of its 962 uses · Strong’s G2036Verb · Translated: said 426, asked 95, told 88, replied 69Full study and all 891 verses →
- οὐδείς oudeísno one, none, nothingtranslated this way 3 times of its 181 uses · Strong’s G3762Adjective · Translated: no one 90, nothing 44, no 13, none 8Full study and all 173 verses →
- λέγω légōI say, speaktranslated this way 2 times of its 993 uses · Strong’s G3004Verb · Translated: said 216, tell 164, say 105, saying 86Full study and all 936 verses →
- ἄνθρωπος ánthrōposa man, one of the human racetranslated this way 2 times of its 479 uses · Strong’s G444Noun · Translated: man 290, men 127, people 14, man's 8Full study and all 444 verses →
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- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.