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HebrewH3458Proper Noun (Masculine)

יִשְׁמָעֵאל

yish.ma.el

44Occurrences
H3458Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites

from H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H410 (אֵל); God will hear;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of Arabia living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Abraham (H0085) and Hagar (H1904); half-brother of: Isaac (H3327), Zimran (H2175), Jokshan (H3370), Medan (H4091), Midian (H4080), Ishbak (H3435) and Shuah (H7744); father of: Nebaioth (H5032), Kedar (H6938), Adbeel (H0110), Mibsam (H4017), Mishma (H4927), Dumah (H1746), Massa (H4854), Hadad (H2301), Tema (H8485), Jetur (H3195), Naphish (H5305), Kedemah (H6929) and Mahalath (H4258) § Ishmael = "God will hear" 1) son of Abraham and Sarah's handmaid Hagar and the progenitor of the Arabian peoples 2) son of Nethaniah and the murderer of Gedaliah 3) a Benjamite, one of the sons of Azel a descendant of Saul through Meribbaal or Mephibosheth 4) a Judaite, father of Zebadiah 5) a Judaite, son of Johanan and one of the captains who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne 6) a priest of the family of Pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by Ezra

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

יִשְׁמָעֵאל appears 44 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
19
Genesis
15
1 Chronicles
5
2 Chronicles
2
2 Kings
2
Ezra
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:28BSB

The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.

2 Kings 25:25BSB

In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

Genesis 17:25BSB

and his son Ishmael was thirteen;

Genesis 36:3BSB

and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

Jeremiah 41:6BSB

And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went.When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.