Bible Person
Meaning: perfumed; confusion of death; in desolation · Female · 6 cross references
Bashemath is Esau's wife from Ishmael's line and the mother of Reuel, linking Esau's house with Abraham's line through Hagar and Ishmael. She is also associated with the name Mahalath in Genesis. First appears in Gen 28:9.1
AI summary: Bashemath matters because the cross references place her at a strategic family junction between Esau and Ishmael's descendants. Through Reuel she contributes to the formation of Edomite clan structure, and her naming across parallel passages reflects the layered preservation of ancestral traditions. Her role is genealogical, but it shapes the remembered kinship map around Israel. Taken together, the material presents Bashemath as an Edomite matriarch whose marriage and motherhood strengthen Esau's developing house.1
Central Figure
Bashemath
Meaning: perfumed; confusion of death; in desolation
The daughter of Ishmael, the last of Esau’s three wives (Gen.
Siblings
The daughter of Ishmael, the last of Esau’s three wives (Gen. 36:3, 4, 13), from whose son Reuel four tribes of the Edomites sprung. She is also called Mahalath (Gen. 28:9). It is noticeable that Esau’s three wives receive different names in the genealogical table of the Edomites (Gen. 36) from those given to them in the history (Gen. 26:34; 28:9). 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.