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Bashemath
Sweet-smelling. (1.) The daughter of Ishmael, the last of Esau’s three wives (Gen 36:3, Gen 36:4, Gen 36:13), from whose son Reuel four tribes of the Edomites sprung. She is also called Mahalath (Gen 28:9). It is noticeable that Esau’s three wives receive different names in the genealogical table of the Edomites (Gen 36:1–43) from those given to them in the history (Gen 26:34; Gen 28:9).
(2.) A daughter of Solomon, and wife of Ahimaaz, one of his officers (1 Kgs 4:15).
Named in the Bible
6 verses
- Genesis 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Genesis 36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
- Genesis 36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
- Genesis 36:10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
- Genesis 36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
