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# יִשְׁמָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3457

**Ishma** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ishma [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3457/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשְׁמָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3457/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a name in Judah 1 Ch 4:3; 𝔊 Ραγμα, A Ιεσμα, 𝔊L Σαμαα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ishma (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.3/#tree)

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ אֲבִ֣י עֵיטָ֔ם יִזְרְעֶ֥אל וְיִשְׁמָ֖א וְיִדְבָּ֑שׁ וְשֵׁ֥ם אֲחוֹתָ֖ם הַצְלֶלְפּֽוֹנִי׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.father of.Etam Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash and the.name their.sister their \[was\].Hazelelponi

*JPS 1917:* And these were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazlelponi;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3457.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3457/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).