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# יִשְׁמְעֵאלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3459

**Ishmaelites** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ishmaelites [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3459/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשְׁמְעֵאלִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3459/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of יִשׁ׳ 1;—sg. c. art. הַיִּשׁ׳ 1 Ch 2:17 + ‖ 2 S 17:25 (so read for הַיִּשְׂרָאֵלִי, v. Comm.); הַיִּשְׁמְעֵלִי 1 Ch 27:30; pl. (הַ)יִּשְׁמְעֵאלִים Ishmaelites Gn 37:25, 27, 28; 39:1; Ju 8:24 ψ 83:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ishmaelites (3); Ishmaelite (2); \[were\] Ishmaelites (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.7/#tree)

אָהֳלֵ֣י אֱ֭דוֹם וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים מוֹאָ֥ב וְהַגְרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.tents of.Edom and.\[the\] Ishmaelites Moab and the.Hagrites

*JPS 1917:* The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

[1 Chronicles 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/#tree)

וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֑א וַאֲבִ֣י עֲמָשָׂ֔א יֶ֖תֶר הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Abigail she.bore (et) Amasa and the.father of.Amasa \[was\].Jether the Ishmaelite

*JPS 1917:* And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3459.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3459/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).