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title: יִשְׁמָא — Ishma · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יִשְׁמָא (3457), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ishma. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יִשְׁמָא

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«יִשְׁמָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ishma** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3457 · **BDB:** יִשְׁמָא

### Glosses

Ishma (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ishma [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3457/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3457/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a name in Judah 1 Ch 4:3; 𝔊 Ραγμα, A Ιεσμα, 𝔊L Σαμαα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יִשְׁמָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3457/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 4:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.3/)

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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ אֲבִ֣י עֵיטָ֔ם יִזְרְעֶ֥אל וְיִשְׁמָ֖א וְיִדְבָּ֑שׁ וְשֵׁ֥ם אֲחוֹתָ֖ם הַצְלֶלְפּֽוֹנִי׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.father of.Etam Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash and the.name their.sister their \[was\].Hazelelponi

*JPS 1917:* And these were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazlelponi;

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