יִשְׁמְעֵאלִי
Ishmaelite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ishmaelite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3459 appears in the Book of Psalms — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Ishmaelite” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name ישמעאלי (Yishmâʻêʼlîy). It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 8 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 37:25. See 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3459 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 4 verses 50%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 25%
- Judges 1 verse 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 38%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ishmeelites 4×
- American Standard Version: Ishmaelites 4×, Ishmaelite 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ishmaelites 5×, Ishmaelite 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ishmaelites 5×, Ishmaelite 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3459 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3459 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3459 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3459 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ishmaelite = see Ishmael " God will hear"
- a descendant of Ishmael
Word origin
Derived from ישמעאל (Yishmâʻêʼl) (H3458) — Ishmael.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יִשְׁמְעֵאלִי
- preced.) Ishmaelite, Arab, Bedouin.—Pl. יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים. Ex. R. s. 23 (ref. to אהלי קדר, Cant. I, 5) אהליהם של י׳ the tents of the Bedouins. Gen. R. s. 84; a. fr. e.g. Song of Solomon 1:5
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H3459 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/יִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 39:1 | 1 |
| הַ/יִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 2:17 | 1 |
| הַ/יִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 27:30 | 1 |
| וְ/יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 83:6 | 1 |
| יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 37:25 | 1 |
| יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 8:24 | 1 |
| לַ/יִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 37:28 | 1 |
| לַ/יִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 37:27 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ishmaelite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(decendant of Ishmael). [Ishmael]
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
