יִשְׁמָעֵאל

Ishmael = &quot God will hear&quot , son of Abraham and Sarah&#39 s handmaid Hagar and the progenitor of the Arabian peoples, son of Nethaniah and the murderer of Gedaliah, a Benjamite, one of the sons of Azel a descendant of Saul through Meribbaal or Mephibosheth, a Judaite, father of Zebadiah, a Judaite, son of Johanan and one of the captains who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne, a priest of the family of Pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by Ezra