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View Name: Ishmael


ISHMAEL
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Biblical
PRONOUNCED: ISH-may-əl (English), ISH-mee-əl (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
From the Hebrew name יִשְׁמָעֵאל (Yishma'el) meaning "God will hear". In the Old Testament this is the name of a son of Abraham. He is the traditional ancestor of the Arabs. Herman Melville used this name for the narrator in his novel 'Moby-Dick' (1851).
Related Names
OTHER LANGUAGES: Esmail, Isma'il (Arabic), Ismael (Biblical Greek), Yishma'el (Biblical Hebrew), Ismahel (Biblical Latin), Ismo (Finnish), Esmail (Iranian), Ismael (Spanish), İsmail (Turkish)
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