Meaning & History
Hebrew word meaning "to hear, to listen" [1] .
Related Items
Given Name DescendantsIsmail (Albanian) Esmail, Ismaeel, Isma'il, Ismail (Arabic) Ismaïl (Arabic (Maghrebi)) Simon (Armenian) Ismail (Avar) İsmayıl (Azerbaijani) Ximun (Basque) Siamion (Belarusian) Ismail (Bengali) Ishmael, Shemaiah, Shimeath, Shimei, Simeon, Simon (Biblical) Ismael, Simon, Symeon (Biblical Greek) Shema'ya, Shim'at, Shim'i, Shimon, Yishma'el (Biblical Hebrew) Ismahel, Simon, Symeon (Biblical Latin) Simeon, Simona (Bulgarian) Ismail (Chechen) Šimun (Croatian) Šimon, Simona, Šimona (Czech) Simon, Simone (Danish) Ismail (Dhivehi) Siemen, Simon, Simone (Dutch) Simon, Simone, Cymone (English) Siim (Estonian) Ismo, Simo (Finnish) Ismaël, Siméon, Simon, Simone, Simonne (French) Siemen (Frisian) Simon, Simoni (Georgian) Simon, Simone (German) Shimon (Hebrew) Simon (Hungarian) Ismail (Indonesian) Ismaele, Simeone, Simona, Simone (Italian) Ismail, Smağūl, Ysmaiyl (Kazakh) Ismail (Kyrgyz) Simona, Simonas (Lithuanian) Simon, Simona (Macedonian) Ismail (Malay) Ximeno (Medieval Spanish) Simen, Simon (Norwegian) Esmaeel, Esmaeil, Esmail (Persian) Szymon (Polish) Ismael, Simão, Simone (Portuguese) Ismail (Quranic) Simion, Simon, Simona (Romanian) Semen, Semion, Semyon (Russian) Simeon (Serbian) Šimon, Simona (Slovak) Simon, Simona (Slovene) Ismaaciil (Somali) Ismael, Jimena, Simeón, Simón, Ximena, Jimeno (Spanish) Simon (Swedish) Ismoil (Tajik) İsmail (Turkish) Semen, Symon (Ukrainian) Ismail (Urdu) Ismail (Uyghur) Ismoil (Uzbek)
Surname DescendantsIsmail (Arabic) Simonyan (Armenian) Ismailov, Ismailova (Avar) İsmayılov, İsmayılova (Azerbaijani) Simeonov, Simeonova (Bulgarian) Ismailov, Ismailova (Chechen) Šimunović (Croatian) Šimon, Šimonová (Czech) Simonsen (Danish) Simon, Simonis, Simons (Dutch) Simmons, Simon, Simons, Simonson, Symonds, Symons, Simen (English) Simon (French) Siemon, Simmon, Simon, Simoneit, Simonis, Simons (German) Simon (Hungarian) Fitzsimmons (Irish) Simon (Jewish) Ismailov, Ismailova, Kadyrov, Kadyrova, Qadyrov, Qadyrova, Smağūlov, Smağūlova, Ysmaiylov, Ysmaiylova (Kazakh) Ismailov, Ismailova (Kyrgyz) Šimonienė, Šimonis, Šimonytė (Lithuanian) Simonsen (Norwegian) Szymańska, Szymański (Polish) Simões (Portuguese) Simion (Romanian) Semyonov, Semyonova (Russian) Šimon, Šimonová (Slovak) Simón, Giménez, Jiménez (Spanish) Simonsson (Swedish) Ismoilov, Ismoilova (Tajik) Semenyuk (Ukrainian) Ismoilov, Ismoilova (Uzbek)
Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h8085, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h8085.
Entry updated May 26, 2026