יִשְׁמָעֵאל

Detailed Definition

• 1son of abraham and sarah's handmaid hagar and the progenitor of the arabian peoples
• 2son of nethaniah and the murderer of gedaliah
• 3a benjamite, one of the sons of azel a descendant of saul through meribbaal or mephibosheth
• 4a judaite, father of zebadiah
• 5a judaite, son of johanan and one of the captains who aided jehoiada in restoring joash to the throne
• 6a priest of the family of pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by ezra