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יִשְׁמָעֵאלִי

yishmaeli · Ishmaelite

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3459 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

yishmaeli (יִשְׁמָעֵאלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ishmaelite”.

A descendant of Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar.

How to say it

yish·ma·e·li

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Ishmaelite: a descendant of Ishmael, Abraham's son.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • Ishmaelites ×6
  • Ishmaelite ×2

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 37:25

    Then they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted their eyes and looked, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying aromatic gum, balm, and ladanum, on their way to take it down to Egypt.

  • Genesis 37:27

    Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be on him, for he is our brother, our flesh.” And his brothers listened.

  • Genesis 37:28

    Then Midianite men, traders, passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

  • Genesis 39:1

    Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

  • Judges 8:24

    Gideon said to them, “Let me ask of you a request: give me each man an earring from his spoil.” For they had earrings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:17

    And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:30

    over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the female donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

  • Psalms 83:6

    the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,