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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3278 - יָעֵל
Transliteration
Yâʻêl
Phonetics
yaw-ale'
Origin
the same as (H3277)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Feminine
TWOT
None
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs'
Jael = “mountain goat”
1) the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed the general Sisera as he slept by driving a peg through his temples into the ground
Frequency Lists
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Verse Results

KJV (6)
6
NAS (6)
6
HCS (6)
6
BSB (6)
6
ESV (6)
6
WEB (6)
6
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
II. יָעֵל proper name, feminine wife of Heber the Kenite, slayer of Sisera Judges 4:17,18,21,22; Judges 5:24, probably also Judges 5:6 (others find here name of a Prayer of Manasseh , a 'judge').
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
יָעֵל m. pl. יְעֵלִים const. יַעֲלֵי
(1) the ibex, perhaps also the chamois. Arab. وَعِلُ and وَعْلُ, Psalms 104:18; Job 39:1. Comp. Bochart, Hieroz. P. I, p. 915, seq. צוּרֵי הַיְּעֵלִים the rocks of the wild goats, near the desert of Engedi, 1 Samuel 24:3.
(2) [Jael], pr.n.
(a) of a judge [?] or heroic person of Israel, before the time of Deborah, Judges 5:6. [This is surely the same as the next.]
(b) of a resolute woman, the wife of Heber the Kenite, Judges 4:17, 18 Judges 4:18, 5:24. Some understand the same to be spoken of 5:6 [of course they are the same.]
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List of Word Forms
יָעֵ֔ל יָעֵ֕ל יָעֵ֣ל יָעֵל֙ יָעֵל֮ יעל yā‘êl yā·‘êl yaEl
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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary developed by Jeff Garrison for StudyLight.org.
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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary developed by Jeff Garrison for StudyLight.org.
Copyright 1999-2023. All Rights Reserved, Jeff Garrison, Gdansk, Poland.
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