Yishmâʻêʼl — H3458

H3458 · Hebrew — ישמעאל

Pronunciation: yish-maw-ale'

Definition

masculine proper noun

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

  1. Ishmael = "God will hear"
  2. son of Abraham and Sarah's handmaid Hagar and the progenitor of the Arabian peoples
  3. son of Nethaniah and the murderer of Gedaliah
  4. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Azel a descendant of Saul through Meribbaal or Mephibosheth
  5. a Judaite, father of Zebadiah
  6. a Judaite, son of Johanan and one of the captains who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne
  7. a priest of the family of Pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by Ezra

Usually translated as

Ishmael

Origin

from H8085 and H410; God will hear

Occurrences

Yishmâʻêʼl occurs 49 times in 45 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (15), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (6), 2 Chronicles (2), Ezra (1), Jeremiah (19)

Strong's Lexicon — Y