Bible Person
Meaning: hearing; obeying · Male · 2 cross references
This Mishma entry refers to one of Ishmael's sons and the ancestral name behind an Arabian tribe, not to the Simeonite of the same name. He belongs to the non-Israelite branch of Abraham's wider family. First appears in Gen 25:14.1
AI summary: This Mishma matters because his cross references place him among Ishmael's twelve sons, a list that records the organized spread of Abraham's descendants beyond the covenant line. The entry helps keep the Bible's geographical and familial horizon broad. Taken together, the material presents this Mishma as an Ishmaelite ancestor linked to the remembered tribal world of Arabia.1
Central Figure
Mishma
Meaning: hearing; obeying
One of the sons of Ishmael (Gen.
Siblings
One of the sons of Ishmael (Gen. 25:14), and founder of an Arab tribe. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.