One of the daughters of Ishmael, whose presence in the wilderness was part of a divinely stated purpose: the Lord told Lehi that his sons should take daughters to wife “that they might raise up seed unto the Lord in the land of promise,” making the Ishmael household’s journey necessary rather than incidental (1 Nephi 7:1). The Lord then softened Ishmael’s heart so that his whole household traveled into the wilderness to Lehi’s tent (1 Nephi 7:5). When Laman and Lemuel bound Nephi with cords and sought to leave him to be devoured by wild beasts, Nephi prayed and the bands were loosed. As his brothers grew angry again and sought to seize him, one of the daughters of Ishmael, her mother, and one of Ishmael’s sons pleaded with them until their hearts softened and they ceased trying to take Nephi’s life (1 Nephi 7:19).
The record does not name which daughter this was. After the families reached Lehi, Nephi, his brothers, and Zoram each married a daughter of Ishmael, Zoram taking the eldest; the verse does not name the daughter Nephi married (1 Nephi 16:7).