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Ishmael was not within; his wife refused Abraham food, and beat her children and cursed her husband within Abraham's hearing. Abraham thereupon asked her to tell Ishmael when he returned that an old man had asked that he change the peg of the tent. Ishmael understood that it was his father, took the hint, and drove away his wife.
Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of the book. Because Ishmael plays a minor role in the plot, early critics of Moby-Dick assumed that Captain Ahab was the protagonist .
Bulkington is a handsome, popular mariner whom Ishmael encounters briefly at the Spouter Inn in New Bedford (Chapter 3), when he has just returned from a four year long voyage. Later, Ishmael finds that he is also a member of the crew of the Pequod. He is the subject of Chapter 23, "The Lee Shore", but does not appear in the rest of the novel.
The Ishmaelites (Hebrew: יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים, romanized: Yīšməʿēʾlīm; Arabic: بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيل, romanized: Banī Ismā'īl, lit. 'sons of Ishmael') were a collection of various Arab tribes, tribal confederations and small kingdoms described in Abrahamic tradition as being descended from and named after Ishmael, a prophet according to the Quran, the first son of ...
List of biblical names; List of burial places of Abrahamic figures; List of mosques that are mentioned by name in the Quran; List of people in both the Bible and the Quran; Muhammad in the Quran; Names of God in Islam
Related names: Hebrew ישמעאל “Ishmael” ... ʾIsmāʿīl) is an Arabic given name. It corresponds to the English name Ishmael. Etymology and meaning
Ishmael was a soldier, described as a ‘captain of the forces’ (2 Kings 25:23; and Jeremiah 41:3). Together with a number of other such captains, Ishmael emerges from the surrounding open country (Jeremiah 40:7) and makes his way to Mizpah, a city in Benjamin, after Gedaliah is appointed governor. Although the forces were likely to have been ...
Ishmael (Book of Mormon), a figure in the Book of Mormon; Ishmael ben Elisha, more commonly "Rabbi Ishmael", 2nd-century rabbi; Ishmael ben Jose, 3rd-century rabbi, the son of Jose ben Halafta; Saint Isfael, a 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint also known as Ismael and Ishmael; Ishmael Beah (born 1980), Sierra Leonean author and former ...