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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

ish'-ma (yishma', from the root yasham, "to lie waste," therefore meaning "desolate"): A brother of Jezreel and Idbash, "the sons of the father of Etam" (1Ch 4:3). They were brothers of Hazzelelponi.