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Lexicon :: Strong's H3458 - yišmāʿē'l

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יִשְׁמָעֵאל
Transliteration
yišmāʿē'l
Pronunciation
yish-maw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׁמָעֵאל Yishmâʻêʼl, yish-maw-ale'; from H8085 and H410; God will hear; Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites:—Ishmael.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x

The KJV translates Strong's H3458 in the following manner: Ishmael (48x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x
The KJV translates Strong's H3458 in the following manner: Ishmael (48x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׁמָעֵאל Yishmâʻêʼl, yish-maw-ale'; from H8085 and H410; God will hear; Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites:—Ishmael.
STRONGS H3458: Abbreviations
יִשְׁמָעֵאל 48 proper name, masculine Ēl heareth; Sabean יסמעאל Hal187; on from compare LagBN 131); —
1. son of Abraham and Hagar Genesis 16:11 (name explanation רגו׳ שָׁמַע י׳), Genesis 16:15. 16 + 11 times Genesis 17; 25, Genesis 28:9 (twice in verse); Genesis 36:3; 1 Chronicles 1:28, 29, 31; Ισμαηλ
2. usually Ισμαηλ: murderer of Gedaliah Jeremiah 41:8; Jeremiah 40:14, 15, 16 + 17 times Jeremiah 41; 2 Kings 25:23, 25 (LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ισραηλ !).
3. in Benjamin 1 Chronicles 8:38; 1 Chronicles 9:44.
4. in Judah:
a. 2 Chronicles 19:11.
b. 2 Chronicles 23:1.
5. Jew with foreign wife Ezra 10:22, Σαμαηλ, A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ισμαηλ.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

16:11; 16:15; 16:16; 17; 25; 28:9; 36:3

2 Kings

25:23; 25:25

1 Chronicles

1:28; 1:29; 1:31; 8:38; 9:44

2 Chronicles

19:11; 23:1

Ezra

10:22

Jeremiah

40:14; 40:15; 40:16; 41; 41:8

H3458

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3458 matches the Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yišmāʿē'l),
which occurs 48 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - The Angel of the LORD continued,

“Behold, you are with child,

And you will bear a son;

And you shall name him Ishmael (God hears),

Because the LORD has heard and paid attention to your persecution (suffering).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 -

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, [fn]Ishmael (God hears).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael [my firstborn] might live before You!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - “As for Ishmael, I have heard and listened to you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will greatly multiply him [through his descendants]. He will be the father of twelve princes (chieftains, sheiks), and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 -

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin the very same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - On the very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as Ishmael his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - So his sons [fn]Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 -

Now [fn]these are the records of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:13 - and these are the names of the [twelve] sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their births: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16 - These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their settlements, and by their encampments (sheepfolds); twelve princes (sheiks) according to their tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:17 - Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years; then he breathed his last and died, and [fn]was gathered to his people [who had preceded him in death].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and [to appease his parents] Esau went to [the family of] Ishmael and took as his wife, in addition to the wives he [already] had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth [Ishmael’s firstborn son].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:3 - and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - When all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:25 -

But in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family [who had a claim to be governor], came with ten men and struck and killed Gedaliah and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:28 -

The sons of Abraham: Isaac [by his wife Sarah] and Ishmael [by Hagar her maid].

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 - These are their descendants: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:31 - Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:38 - Azel had six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:44 - Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:11 - “Behold, Amariah the chief priest will be over you in all matters of the LORD, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters; and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:1 -

In the seventh year Jehoiada [the priest] summoned his courage and took the captains of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Johanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, and they entered into a covenant with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:22 - and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:8 - they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:14 - and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:15 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, “Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know [who is responsible]. Why should he kill you and cause all the Jews who are gathered near you to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16 - But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “Do not do this thing, for you are lying about Ishmael.”

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Now in the [fn]seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family [of David] and one of the princes of the king, came [at the instigation of the Ammonites] with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in Mizpah. As they were eating a meal together there in Mizpah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:2 - Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and killed the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed [governor] over the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:3 - Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were [at the banquet] with Gedaliah at Mizpah, in addition to the Chaldean soldiers who were there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:6 - Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping [false tears] as he went. As he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - Yet when they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into the cistern (underground water reservoir).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But ten men who were among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us! We have stores of wheat and barley and oil and honey hidden in the field.” So he stopped and did not kill them along with their companions.

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Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one which King Asa [of Judah] had made [about three hundred years earlier] on account of King Baasha of Israel [believing that Baasha would lay siege to Mizpah]. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [the bodies of] those who were killed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah—even the king’s daughters (ladies of the court) and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put under the charge of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and crossed over [the Jordan] to [meet his allies] the Ammonites.

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But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him heard of the murderous behavior of Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:12 - they took all their men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and found him by the great pool in Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:13 - Now when all the [captive] people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, they were glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:14 - So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and joined Johanan the son of Kareah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15 - But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to join the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the people whom he had rescued from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: the soldiers, the women, the children, and the high officials whom Johanan had brought back from Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:18 - because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed [governor] over the land [and whose death the king might avenge].
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