Strong's Number H3458

Transliteration:

Yishma`e'l{yish-maw-ale'}

Word Origin:

from 8085 and 410

Part of Speech:

proper name masculine

Usage in the KJV:

Ishmael 48

Total: 48

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