Strong's Number 3458

Transliteration:
Yishma`e'l {yish-maw-ale'}
Word Origin:
from 8085 and 410
Part of Speech:
proper name masculine
Usage in the KJV:
Ishmael 48

Total: 48
Definition:
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