# H3458 יִשְׁמָעֵאל

יִשְׁמָעֵאל (Yishmâʻêʼl), Strong’s H3458: Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites KJV: Ishmael.. Occurs 48 times.

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*Yishmâʻêʼl* — Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and of five Israelites

KJV: Ishmael.

Built from [שָׁמַע shâmaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H8085) (to hear intelligently) + [אֵל ʼêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H410) (strength) — means “God will hear”

Occurs 48 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יִשְׁמָעֵאל 48 n.pr.m. (Ēl heareth)
- 1 son of Abraham and Hagar
- 2 murderer of Gedaliah
- 3 in Benj.
- 4 in Judah
- 5 Jew with foreign wife

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 16:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=11) — The LORD’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael…
- [Genesis 16:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=15) — Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
- [Genesis 16:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=16) — Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
- [Genesis 17:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=18) — Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
- [Genesis 17:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=20) — As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him…
- [Genesis 17:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=23) — Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among…
- [Genesis 17:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=25) — Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- [Genesis 17:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=26) — In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
- [Genesis 25:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=9) — Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite…
- [Genesis 25:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=12) — Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to…