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Ismachiah meaning

Ismachiah in Biblical Hebrew
יסמכיהו
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🔼The name Ismachiah: Summary

Meaning
Yahu Will Sustain
Etymology
From (1) the verb סמך (samak), to uphold or support, and (2) יהו (yahu), the name of the Lord.
Related names
• Via סמך (samak): Ahisamach, Semachiah
• Via יהו (yahu): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of yahu- and yah-names.

🔼The name Ismachiah in the Bible

The name Ismachiah (or rather Ismachiahu) occurs only one time in the Bible. He is one of ten Levites who collect tithes and offerings from visitors of the Temple during the days of king Hezekiah's reorganization of the Temple services (2 Chronicles 31:13). Ismachiah and his colleagues operate under the authority of Conaniah and his assisting brother Shimei.

🔼Etymology of the name Ismachiah

The name Ismachiah consists of two elements. The final part is יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), which in turn are abbreviated forms of the Tetragrammaton; the name of the Lord: YHWH.

The first part of our name is the third person singular (or actually and technically the future form) of the verb סמך (samak), meaning to uphold or support:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
סמך

The verb סמך (samak) means to support, lean or lay upon (as in the phrase "the laying on of hands"). Noun סמך (samekh), support, is the name of the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet: the ס. The tenth letter, י (yod), means "hand."

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🔼Ismachiah meaning

For a meaning of the name Ismachiah, NOBSE Study Bible Name List proposes Yahweh Will Sustain. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Supported Of The Lord. And BDB Theological Dictionary has Yah Sustaineth.