H3458

Yishma`e'l

yish-maw-ale'

Proper Name Masculine

from H8085 and H410; God will hear; Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites:--Ishmael.

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