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# אַיָּלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H355

**hind** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/355/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַיָּלָה: n.f. hind, doe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/355/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hind, doe—א׳ abs. Gn 49:21 (but read אֵילָה v. infr.); אַיֶּ֫לֶת Je 14:5; cstr. אַיֶּ֫לֶת ψ 22:1 Pr 5:19; pl. אַיָּלוֹת ψ 29:9 + 4 times; cstr. אַיְלוֹת Ct 2:7; 3:5—hind, doe, as calving Jb 39:1 (חֹלֵל א׳ ‖ לֶדֶת יַעֲלֵי סָ֑לַע) cf. ψ 29:9 קוֹל יָ׳ יְחוֹלֵל א׳; in adjuration בִּצְבָאוֹת אוֹ בְּא׳ הַשָּׂדֶה Ct 2:7; 3:5; in sim. מְשַׁיֶּה רַגְלַי כָּא ψ 18:34; = 2 S 22:34 cf. וַיָּשֶׂם ר׳ כָּא׳ Hb 3:19 i.e. surefooted, secure, cf. ‖ וְעַל בָּמֹתַי יַעֲמִידֵנִי ψ 18:34 2 S 22:34; so Hb 3:19 but vb. יַדְרִכֵנִי; metaph. of Naphtali Gn 49:21 א׳ שְׁלֻחָה, but read אִילָה, cf. sub i. אֵלָה; in name of a melody ψ 22:1 עַל־אַיֶּלֶת הַשַּׁחַר cf. De, & for hind as fig. of dawn Yom.29 a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: does (4); the does (2); \[is\] a doe (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/#tree)

נַפְתָּלִ֖י אַיָּלָ֣ה שְׁלֻחָ֑ה הַנֹּתֵ֖ן אִמְרֵי־שָֽׁפֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* Naphtali \[is\].a.doe let.loose \[which\] utters words of.beauty

*JPS 1917:* Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

[Job 39:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.1/#tree)

הֲיָדַ֗עְתָּ עֵ֭ת לֶ֣דֶת יַעֲלֵי־סָ֑לַע חֹלֵ֖ל אַיָּל֣וֹת תִּשְׁמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* do you.know? \[the\].time of.\[the\].bringing.forth of.mountain.goats of.rock \[the\].bringing.forth of.does do.you.watch?

*JPS 1917:* Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/355.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/355/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).