Hebrew word · H3457

יִשְׁמָא

veyishma'

Ishma

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 21, 2026

What it means

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.4.3;

son of: Hur (H2354);

brother of: Uri (H0221), Shobal (H7732H), Salma (H8007H), Hareph (H2780), Jezreel (H3157J), Idbash (H3031), Hazzelelponi (H6753), Penuel (H6439H) and Ezer (H5829)

§ Ishma = "desolation"

a Judaite descended from Hur

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

1 Chronicles · 1

1 Chronicles 4:3 וְיִשְׁמָ֖א and Ishma

These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.

Here: A name found only here. It is probably a shortened form of a name like Ishmael ("God hears"), but its meaning is uncertain.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.