Bible Names

Bashemath: meaning of the name

Bashemath means “perfumed; confusion of death; in desolation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Bashemath in Hebrew and Greek

בׇּשְׂמַת H1315

Bosmath (bos-math') — Bosmath, the name of a wife of Esau, and of a daughter of Solomon

feminine of H1314 (בֶּשֶׂם) (the second form); fragrance;

Who named Bashemath in the Bible

Bashemath in Scripture

“Bashemath” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • 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.