Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A descendant of Ishmael.
- noun An outcast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A descendant of Ishmael, Abraham's son, who, as is related in Genesis (xxi. 14), was driven into the wilderness with his mother, Hagar. His twelve sons were “princes” or heads of tribes. The Arabs regard him as their ancestor.
- noun One resembling Ishmael, whose hand was “against every man, and every man's hand against him” (Gen. xvi. 12); one at war with society.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, “His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.”
- noun One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast.
- noun See
Ismaelian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any
descendant ofIshmael - noun by extension an
outcast
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Examples
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Ithra, the father of Amasa, in Arab fashion, for which reason he was sometimes called the Ishmaelite, threatened to hew down any one with his sword who refused to accept Samuel's interpretation of the law, that male Moabites and male Ammonites are forever excluded from the congregation of Israel, but not
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913
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These men, to a great extent, occupied the same position in camp as at home, a kind of Ishmaelite, a social outcast, and I cannot remember one who lived a useful life after the war or lived long.
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There is also a tradition that the prophet was a Jew, which may mean that he was an Arab or Ishmaelite, which is the same thing. "
Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880
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"Ishmaelite" occur on three occasions: (Genesis 37: 25,27,28;
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And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death.
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And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death.
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Moses definitely marries out, to a woman named Zipporah who is a daughter of the Midianite probably Ishmaelite priest who goes by several names: Jethro, Hobab, Shuaib.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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Moses definitely marries out, to a woman named Zipporah who is a daughter of the Midianite probably Ishmaelite priest who goes by several names: Jethro, Hobab, Shuaib.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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This feeling had been accentuated by the Ishmaelite life he had led from his puppyhood.
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Bar 3: 23 continues in a similar vein, enumerating others who have not found wisdom, and among them “the descendants of Hagar,” the Ishmaelites (Gen 16: 11 – 12), who stand for the Ishmaelite territory in northwest Arabia (see Gen 25: 18).
Hagar: Apocrypha. 2009
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