yišmāʿēʾl יִשְׁמָעֵאל ‘Ishmael’ (Hebrew)

Etymology^?: from šāmaʿ שָׁמַע ‘to hear’ and ʾēl אֵל ‘god’
Roots: שׁמע אל

yišmāʿēʾl pr n m pers
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