Hebrew word · H3460

יִשְׁמַעְיָ֫הוּ

yishma'yahu

Ishmaiah

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.12.4

§ Ishmaiah = "Jehovah will hear"

1) a Gibeonite and one of David's mighty warriors

2) a son of Obadiah and the ruler of the tribe of Zebulun in the time of king David

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 · 2

1 Chronicles 12:4 וְיִֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֧ה and Ishmaiah

Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;
1 Chronicles 27:19 יִֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֖הוּ Ishmaiah

over Zebulun was Ishmaiah son of Obadiah; over Naphtali was Jerimoth son of Azriel;

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