ayal · deer, stag

What it means

ayal (אַיָּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deer, stag”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A swift, slender animal of the hills, whose meat could be eaten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• deer ×8
• fawn ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×4
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Deuteronomy 12:15

  However, with all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat meat according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim that he has given you within all your gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

• Deuteronomy 12:22

  Just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so you shall eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

• Deuteronomy 14:5

  the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

• Deuteronomy 15:22

  Within your gates you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

• 1 Kings 4:23

  ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and fattened fowl.

• Psalms 42:1

  For the director. A maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer longs for channels of water, so my soul longs for you, Elohim.

• Song of Songs 2:9

  My beloved is like a gazelle or a fawn. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.

• Song of Songs 2:17

  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of Bether.

• Song of Songs 8:14

  Flee, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of balsams.

• Isaiah 35:6

  Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will shout for joy; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and torrents in the Arabah.

• Lamentations 1:6

  And there has gone out from the daughter of Zion all her splendor; her princes have become like deer that have not found pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.