יִשְׁמָעֵאל

Strong’s Definition

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

Etymology & Derivation

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

KJV Usage

Ishmael.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 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

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Yishmâʻêʼl; Pronunciation: yish-maw-ale'