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# יִשְׁמָעֵאל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3458

**Ishmael** — used 48 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ishmael [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3458/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשְׁמָעֵאל²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3458/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Ēl heareth; Sab. יסמעאל Hal 187; on form cf. LagBN 131);— son of Abraham and Hagar Gn 16:11 (name expl. כִּי שָׁמַע י׳ וגו׳), v 15, 16 + 11 times Gn 17:25, 28:9(×2), 36:3 1 Ch 1:28, 29, 31; Ισμαηλ. usually Ισμαηλ: murderer of Gedaliah Je 40:8, 14, 15, 16 + 17 times Je 41, 2 K 25:23, 25 (𝔊L Ισραηλ!). in Benj. 1 Ch 8:38; 9:44. in Judah: 2 Ch 19:11. 23:1. Jew with foreign wife Ezr 10:22, Σαμαηλ, A 𝔊L Ισμαηλ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: Ishmael (38); of Ishmael (10).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.28/#tree)

בְּנֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם יִצְחָ֖ק וְיִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Abraham \[were\].Isaac and Ishmael

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

[Genesis 36:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.3/#tree)

וְאֶת־בָּשְׂמַ֥ת בַּת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל אֲח֥וֹת נְבָיֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Basemath the.daughter of.Ishmael the.sister of.Nebaioth

*JPS 1917:* and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3458.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3458/): 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).