King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3458
Transliteration: Yishmael
Phonetic Spelling: (yish-maw-ale')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "God hears", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Ishmael -- "God hears", the name of several Israelites
Word Summary
Yishmael: "God hears", the name of several Israelites
Original Word: יִשְׁמָעֵאלTransliteration: Yishmael
Phonetic Spelling: (yish-maw-ale')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "God hears", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Ishmael -- "God hears", the name of several Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Ishmael From shama' and 'el; God will hear; Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites -- Ishmael.
see HEBREW shama'
see HEBREW 'el
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3458. Yishmael
יִשְׁמָעֵאל48 proper name, masculine El heareth; Sabean יסמעאל Hal187; on from compare LagBN 131); —
1 son of Abraham and Hagar Genesis 16:11 (name explanation י ׳שָׁמַע ׳רגו), 16:15. 16 11t. Genesis 17..25, 28:9 (twice in verse); 36:3; 1 Chronicles 1:28-29, 31; Ισμαηλ
2 usually Ισμαηλ: murderer of Gedaliah Jeremiah 41:8; 40:14-15, 16 17t. Jeremiah 41; 2 Kings 25:23, 25 (ᵐ5L Ισραηλ !).
3 in Benjamin 1 Chronicles 8:38; 9:44.
4 in Judah:
5 Jew with foreign wife Ezra 10:22, Σαμαηλ, A ᵐ5L Ισμαηλ.