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# יָעֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3278

**Jael** — used 6 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

Jael [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3278/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָעֵל²: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3278/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. wife of Heber the Kenite, slayer of Sisera Ju 4:17, 18, 21, 22; 5:24, prob. also v 6 (others find here name of a man, a ‘judge’).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jael (4); of Jael (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.24/#tree)

תְּבֹרַךְ֙ מִנָּשִׁ֔ים יָעֵ֕ל אֵ֖שֶׁת חֶ֣בֶר הַקֵּינִ֑י מִנָּשִׁ֥ים בָּאֹ֖הֶל תְּבֹרָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* she.will.be.blessed more than.women Jael the.wife of.Heber the Kenite more than.women in the tent she.will.be.blessed

*JPS 1917:* Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in the tent shall she be blessed.

[Judges 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.6/#tree)

בִּימֵ֞י שַׁמְגַּ֤ר בֶּן־עֲנָת֙ בִּימֵ֣י יָעֵ֔ל חָדְל֖וּ אֳרָח֑וֹת וְהֹלְכֵ֣י נְתִיב֔וֹת יֵלְכ֕וּ אֳרָח֖וֹת עֲקַלְקַלּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* in the.days of.Shamgar the.son of.Anath in the.days of.Jael they.ceased roads and walkers of.paths they.walked roads twisting

*JPS 1917:* In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways ceased, and the travellers walked through byways.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3278.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3278/): 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).