יָעֵל
yael · mountain goat
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3277 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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yael (יָעֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mountain goat”.
Ibex: an animal that lives among the crags of the desert.
How to say it
ya·el
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
- A mountain animal with long horns that lives on the highest crags.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Wild Goats ×2
- when the mountain goats ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 24:2
Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
- Job 39:1
Do you know the time when the mountain goats of the crag give birth? Do you watch over the calving of the does?
- Psalms 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyraxes.