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1 Chronicles 12:4

“And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

יִשְׁמַעְיָהYishmaʻyâh · yish-mah-yaw'
H3460 · Hebrew

Definition: Jishmajah, the name of two Israelites
Derivation: or יִשְׁמַעְיָהוּlemma יְשְׁמַעְיָהוּ first vowel, corrected to יִשְׁמַעְיָהוּ; from H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah will hear;
KJV renderings: Ishmaiah.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
יִֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֧ה — proper noun
Code HC/Np
Usage: Occurs 2 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Chronicles 27:19

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יִשְׁמַעְיָה here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.