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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יִשְׁמָעֵאל
יִשְׁמָעֵאל
H3458
Transliteration: Yishmâʻêʼl
Pronunciation: yish-maw-ale'
Definition: Ishmael
Original: ישׁמעאל Transliteration: yishmâ‛ê'l Phonetic: yish-maw-ale'
BDB Definition:
Ishmael = "God will hear"- son of Abraham and Sarah's handmaid Hagar and the progenitor of the Arabian peoples
- son of Nethaniah and the murderer of Gedaliah
- a Benjamite, one of the sons of Azel a descendant of Saul through Meribbaal or Mephibosheth
- a Judaite, father of Zebadiah
- a Judaite, son of Johanan and one of the captains who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne
- a priest of the family of Pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by Ezra