Ishmael Definition

ĭshmē-əl, -mā-
noun
An outcast.
Webster's New World
The son of Abraham and Hagar: he and his mother were made outcasts: Gen. 21:9-21
Webster's New World
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pronoun

(Abrahamic religions) The eldest son of Abraham and his wife's handmaiden Hagar who were cast out after the birth of Isaac; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs.

Wiktionary
A male given name.
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Origin of Ishmael

  • From Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él (yišmāʿēl), “God hears, God will hear”).

    From Wiktionary

  • After Ishmael

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ishmael Sentence Examples

  • See further Ishmael, and note that the pair Isaac and Ishmael correspond to Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Esau.

  • But discontented survivors of the royal family under Ishmael intrigued with Baalis, king of Ammon.

  • In 1502 Mesopotamia passed for a time into the hands of the Safawid shah, Ishmael; but in 1516 it came under the Osmanli Turks, to whom it has belonged ever since.

  • Not improbably they spoke a dialect (or dialects) akin to Arabic or Aramaic. 5 According to the Mahommedans, Ishmael, who is recognized as their ancestor, lies buried with his mother in the Kaaba in Mecca.

  • The people, according to their own traditions, are derived from two stocks, the pure Arabs, descended from Kahtan or Joktan, fourth in descent from Shem; and the Mustarab or naturalized Arabs, from Ishmael.

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