אַיָּלָה
ʼayâlâh · H355 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Thing
- DeerMammals22 verses
Meanings
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Female of אַיָּל ((female) fallow deer)
ExamplesGenesis 49:21 “Naphtali is a doe let loose; He utters beautiful words.
2 Samuel 22:34 “He makes my feet like deer’s feet, And sets me on my high places.
Job 39:1 “Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חוּלto tremble, to writhe 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חוּלto tremble, to writhe 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נַפְתָּלִיNaphtali 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 6
- בin/on/with 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- צְבִי tsᵉbîy · H6643 · beauty, beautiful, honor
- When צְבִי means 'gazelle' (rather than 'beauty/glory'), it denotes a swift, graceful wild animal closely related semantically to אַיָּלָה; both are clean animals mentioned in dietary laws and poetic descriptions of swiftness and grace.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wild Animals001001002001
- אַיָּלָה names the hind or female deer, as Naphtali likened to “a doe let loose” in Jacob's blessing (Genesis 49:21).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H355. ayyalah אַיָּלָה noun feminine hind, doe — ׳א absolute Gen 49:21 (but read אֵילָה…
אַיָּלָה noun feminine hind, doe — ׳א absolute Gen 49:21 (but read אֵילָה see below); אַיֶּ֫לֶת Jer 14:5; construct אַיֶּ֫לֶת Psa 22:1; Pro 5:19; plural אַיָּלוֺת Psa 29:9 Psa 29:4t; construct אַיְלוֺת Son 2:7; Son 3:5 — hind, doe, as calving Job 39:1 (א ׳חֹלֵל || סָ֑לַע יַעֲלֵי לֶדֶת) compare Psa 29:9 י ׳קוֺל א ׳יְחוֺלֵל; in adjuration בְּא אוֺ ׳בָּצְבָאוֺת הַשָּׂדֶה Son 2:7; Son 3:5; in simile׳כָּא רַגְלַי מְשַׁוֶּה Psa 18:34 = 2Sa 22:34 compare ר ׳וַיָּשֶׂם ׳כָּא Hab 3:19 i.e. surefooted, secure, compare || יַעֲמִידֵנִי בָּמֹתַי וְעַל Psa 18:34 (2Sa 22:34; so Hab 3:19 but verb יַדְרִכֵנִי metaphor of Naphtali Gen 49:21 ׳א שְׁלֻחָה, but read אֵילָה, compare sub. I. אֵלָה; in name of a melody Psa 22:1 הַשַּׁחַר עַלאַֿיֶּלֶת compare De, & forhind as figurative of dawn Yom.29 a.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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
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