Topic
Bashemath
9 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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- Genesis 26:34Easton · Smith · Nave Wife of Esau
¶ 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 36:3Easton · Smith · Nave Wife of Esau
And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
- Genesis 36:4Easton · Smith · Nave Wife of Esau
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
- Genesis 36:13Easton · Smith · Nave Wife of Esau
And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.
- Genesis 28:9Easton · Smith
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
- Genesis 36:1–43Easton
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of…
- Genesis 36:10Nave Wife of Esau
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 36:17Nave Wife of Esau
¶ 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.
- 1 Kings 4:15Easton
Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 8 references
Sweet-smelling. (1.) The daughter of Ishmael, the last of Esau’s three wives (Gen. 36:3, 4, 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) from those given to them in the history (Gen. 26:34; 28:9).
(2.) A daughter of Solomon, and wife of Ahimaaz, one of his officers (1 Kings 4:15).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 5 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
bash'-e-math.
See BASEMATH.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.