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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3278 - יָעֵל

Transliteration
Yâʻêl
Phonetics
yaw-ale'
Root Word (Etymology)
the same as (H3277)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Feminine
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Definition   
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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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.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
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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