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Strong's #3458 - יִשְׁמָעֵאל
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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
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1 son of Abraham and Hagar Genesis 16:11 (name explanation ׳רגו׳שָׁמַע י), Genesis 16:15. 16 11t. Genesis 17..25, Genesis 28:9 (twice in verse); Genesis 36:3; 1 Chronicles 1:28,29,31; Ισμαηλ
2 usually Ισμαηλ: murderer of Gedaliah Jeremiah 41:8; Jeremiah 40:14,15,16 17t. Jeremiah 41; 2 Kings 25:23,25 (ᵐ5 L Ισραηλ !).
3 in Benjamin 1 Chronicles 8:38; 1 Chronicles 9:44.
4 in Judah:
a. 2 Chronicles 19:11.
b. 2 Chronicles 23:1.
5 Jew with foreign wife Ezra 10:22, Σαμαηλ, A ᵐ5 L Ισμαηλ.
יִשְׁמָעֵאל (“whom God hears”), Ishmael, pr.n. borne by
(1) the son of Abraham, by Hagar his concubine, the ancestor of many Arabian tribes, -Gen. 25:1218. Hence patron. יִשְׁמְעֵאלִי 1 Chronicles 2:17, 27:30 pl. ־ִים Arabs descended from Ishmael, trading with Egypt (Genesis 37:25, 27 Genesis 37:27, 39:1 ), wandering as nomades from the east of the Hebrews, and from Egypt as far as the Persian gulf and Assyria (i.e. Babylonia), Genesis 25:18, which same limits are elsewhere (1 Samuel 25:7) assigned to the Amalekites, Judges 8:24 (compare verse 22 Judges 8:22); Psalms 83:7.
(2) the killer of Gedaliah, Jerem. 40 and 41.
(3) several others, 1 Chronicles 8:38; 2 Chronicles 23:1; Ezra 10:22.
