Hebrew n--pg · H3459
יִשְׁמָעֵאלִי
Yishmaeliyish-maw-ay-lee'
Ishmaelite
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yishmâʻêʼlîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3459is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3459
a Jishmaelite or descendant of Jishmael
The King James renders it: Ishmaelite.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yishmaeli is rendered "Ishmaelite". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 37:25And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
Genesis 37:25יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ishmaelites2
- the Ishmaelite2
- to the Ishmaelites2
- and Ishmaelites1
- the Ishmaelites1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יִשְׂרְאֵלִי | Yisreeli | Ishmaelite | Uses5 |
| יִשְׁוִי | Yishvi | Ishvite | Uses1 |
| יִשְׁרָה | yishrah | uprightness | Uses1 |
| יִשְׂרְאֵלִית | Yisreelith | Israelitess | Usesnot recorded |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃1
- הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים1
- הַיִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑י1
- וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים1
- יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים1
- יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים1
- לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים1
- לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- gentilic noun (a people)2HNgmpa
- preposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)2HRd/Ngmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)2HTd/Ngmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + gentilic noun (a people)1HC/Ngmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)1HTd/Ngmpa
Genesis
four uses
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
- יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔יםyishmeelimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ishmaelites
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
- לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗יםlaiyishmeelimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Ishmaelites
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
- לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖יםlaiyishmeelimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Ishmaelites
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔יםhaiyishmeelimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Ishmaelites
Judges
one use
Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
- יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖יםyishmeelimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Ishmaelites
1 Chronicles
two uses
Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃haiyishmeelithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Ishmaelite
Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.
- הַיִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑יhaiyishmeelithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Ishmaelite
Psalms
one use
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
- וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗יםveyishmeelimconjunction (“and”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and Ishmaelites
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.