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ISHMAEL
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: ISH-may-əl (English), ISH-mee-əl (English) [key]
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From the Hebrew name יִשְׁמָעֵאל (Yishma'el) meaning "God will hear". In the Old Testament this was the name of a son of Abraham. He is the traditional ancestor of the Arabs. This name was used by Herman Melville for the narrator in his novel 'Moby-Dick' (1851). |
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