יִשְׁמָעֵאלִיYishmâʻêʼlîy
of ׳ יִשׁ 1 (1 Chronicles 2:17; 2 Samuel 17:25; 1 Chronicles 27:30; Genesis 37:25; Genesis 37:27)
Pronunciation: yish-maw-ay-lee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3459
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 37:25 Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.
- Genesis 37:27 Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother—our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed.
- Genesis 37:28 So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.
- Genesis 39:1 When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
- Judges 8:24 However, I do have one request—that each of you give me an earring from the plunder you collected from your fallen enemies.” (The enemies, being Ishmaelites, all wore gold earrings.)
- 1 Chronicles 2:17 Abigail married a man named Jether, an Ishmaelite, and they had a son named Amasa.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).