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Lexicon :: Strong's H3278 - yāʿēl

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יָעֵל
Transliteration
yāʿēl
Pronunciation
yaw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as יָעֵל (H3277)
Strong’s Definitions

יָעֵל Yâʻêl, yaw-ale'; the same as H3277; Jael, a Canaanite:—Jael.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H3278 in the following manner: Jael (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H3278 in the following manner: Jael (6x).

  1. Jael = "mountain goat"

    1. the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed the general Sisera as he slept by driving a peg through his temples into the ground

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָעֵל Yâʻêl, yaw-ale'; the same as H3277; Jael, a Canaanite:—Jael.
STRONGS H3278: Abbreviations
II. יָעֵל proper name, feminine wife of Heber the Kenite, slayer of Sisera Judges 4:17,18,21,22; Judges 5:24, probably also Judges 5:6 (others find here name of a man, a 'judge').
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

4:17; 4:18; 4:21; 4:22; 5:6; 5:24

H3278

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Strong's Number H3278 matches the Hebrew יָעֵל (yāʿēl),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:21 - But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6 - “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath,
in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned,
and travelers kept to the byways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - “Most blessed of women be Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
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