Word

יָעֵל

Yâʻêl · H3278 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences

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Person

Jaelfirst named in Judges 4:176 verses

Meanings

Jael

A woman who was the wife of Heber the Kenite, in the time of the Judges

Examples
Judges 4:17 Now Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges 4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
Judges 4:21 But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 1 groups

אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 3

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

יָצָאto go out 2
בָרַךְto bless 1
לָקַחto take, to receive 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֹהֶלtent 1
יוֹםday, time 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Wild Animals001001002001: As a personal name, יָעֵל designates Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed Sisera in her tent, illustrated at Judges 4:17-22 and 5:6, 5:24; the name itself derives from the common noun for the wild mountain goat, but every genuine tagged occurrence names the person, not the animal. The domain is bundle-shared with that underlying common-noun sense.
Names of Landforms003001008: This entry carries no independent landform sense of its own; every tagged occurrence names the person Jael, as in “Now Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite” (Judges 4:17). The “Names of Landforms” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme יָעֵל (yâʻêl, H3277), the common noun for a wild goat associated with rocky heights, rather than independently attested here.
Names of People003001007: יָעֵל (Jael) names the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed the fleeing Canaanite general Sisera with a tent peg (Judges 4:17-22).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3278. Yael II. יָעֵל proper name, feminine wife of Heber the Kenite, slayer of Sisera…

H3278. Yael
II. יָעֵל proper name, feminine wife of Heber the Kenite, slayer of Sisera Jdg 4:17-18, Jdg 4:21, Jdg 4:22; Jdg 5:24, probably also Jdg 5:6 (others find here name of a man, a 'judge').

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0