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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

Mentioned in Genesis 17:18, 17:23, 17:26, 25:12, 28:9, 16:15, 16:16, 36:3, 16:11, 25:9, 25:17, 25:13, 25:16, 17:20, 17:25 2 Kings 25:23, 25:25 Jeremiah 40:15, 41:8, 40:14, 40:16, 41:1, 41:2, 41:6, 41:10, 41:16, 41:18, 41:7, 41:9, 41:12, 41:15, 40:8, 41:14, 41:3, 41:11, 41:13 Ezra 10:22 1 Chronicles 1:28, 1:29, 1:31, 8:38, 9:44 2 Chronicles 23:1, 19:11

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