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ISHMAEL (a See also:Hebrew name meaning " See also:God hears ")  , in the See also:Bible, the son of See also:Abraham by his See also:Egyptian concubine Hagar, and the eponym of a number of (probably) nomadic tribes living outside See also:Palestine . Hagar in turn personifies a See also:people found to the See also:east of See also:Gilead (1 Chron. v. lo) and See also:Petra (See also:Strabo).' Through the See also:jealousy of Sarah, Abraham's wife, See also:mother and son were driven away, and they wandered in the See also:district See also:south of See also:Beersheba and Kadesh (Gen. xvi . J, xxi . E); see ABRAHAM . It had been foretold to his mother before his See also:birth that he should be " a See also:wild See also:ass among men," and that he should dwell " before the See also:face of " (that is, to the eastward of) his brethren . It is subsequently stated that after leaving his See also:father's roof he " became an See also:archer,' and dwelt in the See also:wilderness of Paran, and i Zill es See also:Sultan, See also:elder See also:brother of Muzafar ed d-n Shah, became See also:governor-See also:general of the See also:Isfahan See also:province in 1869 . z On See also:Paul's use of the See also:story of Hagar (Gal. iv . 24-26), see Ency . Bib. See also:col . 1934 ; and H . St J . See also:Thackeray, Relation of St Paul to contemporary Jewish Thought (See also:London, 1900), pp .

196 sqq.; Hagar typifies the old Sinaitic See also:

covenant, and Sarah represents the new -covenant of freedom from bondage . The treatment of the concubine and her son in Gen. xvi. compared with ch. xxi. illustrates old See also:Hebrew customs, on which see further S . A . See also:Cook, See also:Laws of See also:Moses, &c . (London, 1903), pp . 116 sqq., 140 sq . The Ituraean archers were of Jetur, one of the "sons" of See also:Ishmael (Gen. See also:xxv . 15), and were See also:Roman mercenaries, perhaps even in See also:Great See also:Britain (See also:Pal . Expl . Fund, Q.S., 1909, p . 283).his mother took him a wife out of the See also:land of See also:Egypt." But the genealogical relations were rather with the Edomites, Midianites and other peoples of See also:North See also:Arabia and the eastern See also:desert than with Egypt proper, and this is indicated by the expressions that " they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is east of Egypt, and he settled to the eastward of his brethren " (see MIZRA1M) . Like See also:Jacob, the ancestor of the Israelites, he had twelve sons (xxv .

12-18, P), of which only a few have See also:

historical associations apart from the biblical records . Nebaioth and Kedar suggest the Nabataei and Cedrei of See also:Pliny (v . 12). the first-mentioned of whom were an important Arab people after the See also:time of See also:Alexander (see See also:NABATAEANS) . The names correspond to the Nabaitu and Kidru of the See also:Assyrian See also:inscriptions occupying the desert east of the See also:Jordan and Dead See also:Sea, whilst the See also:Massa and Tema See also:lay probably farther south . Dumah may perhaps be the same as the Domata of Pliny (vi . 32) and the tlovµeea or AouµafWa of See also:Ptolemy (v . 19, 7, viii . 22, 3)—See also:Sennacherib conquered a fortress of " Aribi " named Adumu,—and Jetur is obviously the Ituraea of classical geographers.' " Ishmael," therefore, is used in a wide sense of the wilder, roving peoples encircling See also:Canaan from the north-east to the south, related to but on a See also:lower See also:rank than the " sons " of See also:Isaac . It is practically identical with the See also:term " Arabia " as used by the Assyrians . Nothing certain is known of the See also:history of these mixed populations . They are represented as warlike nomads and with a certain reputation for See also:wisdom (See also:Baruch iii . 23) .

Not improbably they spoke a See also:

dialect (or dialects) akin to Arabic or Aramaic.' According to the Mahommedans, Ishmael, who is recognized as their ancestor, lies buried with his mother in the Kaaba in See also:Mecca . See further, T . See also:Noldeke, Ency . Bib., s.v., and the articles See also:EDOM, See also:MIDIAN . (S . A . C.) 1SHPEMING, a See also:city of See also:Marquette See also:county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., about 15 M . W. by S. of Marquette, in the N. See also:part of the upper See also:peninsula . Pop . (189o) 11,197; (1900) 13,255, of whom 5970 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1004) 11,623; (1910) 12,448 . It is served by the See also:Chicago & North Western, the See also:Duluth, South See also:Shore & See also:Atlantic, and the See also:Lake See also:Superior and Ishpeming See also:railways . The city is 1400 ft. above sea-level (whence its name, from an See also:Ojibway See also:Indian word, said to mean " high up "), in the centre of the Marquette Range See also:iron district, and has seven mines within its limits; the See also:mining of iron ore is its See also:principal See also:industry .

Ishpeming was settled about 1854, and was incorporated as a city in 1873 .

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