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# אַיָּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H354

**hart** — used 11 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

hart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/354/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַיָּל: hart, stag, deer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/354/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (f. ψ 42:2) hart, stag, deer (Aramaic id., ܐܰܝܠܴܐ Arabic إِيَّلٌ Assyrian ailu DlW, but dub., v. HptBAS i. 170, Ethiopic ሀየል = leader? cf. אַיִל. Arabic إِيَّلٌ = ibex (i.q. وَعْلٌ, وَعِلٌ).) א׳ abs. Dt 12:15 + 6 times; pl. אַיָּלִים Ct 2:9 + 3 times;—hart, stag, allowed as food Dt 12:15, 22; 15:22 (all ‖ צְבִי); 14:5 (‖ צְבִי, יַחְמוּר etc.); eaten in Sol.’s household 1 K 5:3 (‖ as Dt 14:5); sim. of leaping Is 35:6; id. עֹפֶר הָא׳ Ct 2:9, 17; 8:14 (all ‖ צְבִי); as in search of pasture, sim. of princes of Judah La 1:6; as longing for water, sim. of longing for י׳ ψ 42:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deer (6); the deer(s) (3); a deer (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.5/#tree)

אַיָּ֥ל וּצְבִ֖י וְיַחְמ֑וּר וְאַקּ֥וֹ וְדִישֹׁ֖ן וּתְא֥וֹ וָזָֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* a.deer and a.gazelle and a.roe-deer and a.wild.goat and an.ibex and an.antelope and a.mountain.sheep

*JPS 1917:* the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.

[Psalms 42:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.2/#tree)

כְּאַיָּ֗ל תַּעֲרֹ֥ג עַל־אֲפִֽיקֵי־מָ֑יִם כֵּ֤ן נַפְשִׁ֨י תַעֲרֹ֖ג אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* like a.deer \[which\].it.pants towards channels of.water so being my it.pants to you O.God

*JPS 1917:* As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/354.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/354/): 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).