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Ishmael
[ ish-mee-uhl, -mey- ]
noun
- (in the Bible) the son of Abraham and Hagar: both he and Hagar were cast out of Abraham's family by Sarah.
- any outcast.
Ishmael
/ ˈɪʃ³¾±ðɪə±ô /
noun
- the son of Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's handmaid: the ancestor of 12 Arabian tribes (Genesis 21:8–21; 25:12–18)
- a bandit chieftain, who defied the Babylonian conquerors of Judah and assassinated the governor appointed by Nebuchadnezzar (II Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 40:13–41:18)
- rare.an outcast
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Origin of Ishmael1
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Mohamed Ishmael, another Mamoudzou resident, told Reuters news agency the situation there was "a tragedy" and said: "You feel like you are in the aftermath of a nuclear war… I saw an entire neighbourhood disappear."
Ishmael found that people online begged for a Victoria's Secret Fashion show of times past that included very harmful narratives about women's bodies.
Ishmael Daro, an editor at Democracy Now!, made a tongue-in-cheek prediction that the reaction from the U.S. political establishment would be similar this time.
Chokurongerwa, who called himself the Prophet Ishmael, was arrested together with seven of his aides “for criminal activities which include abuse of minors.â€
The period was when “Harlem became the symbol for the international black city,†as the novelist Ishmael Reed described it.
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