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אַיִל

ayil

ah'-yil

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼayil

properly, strength

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree

Rendered in the KJV as

mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.

  • 187
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 18 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 91
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 187 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 91

  • אֵילִ֤ם14
  • אַ֧יִל13
  • אַ֣יִל7
  • אֵילִ֣ם7
  • הָאַ֔יִל7
  • וְאַ֥יִל6
  • לָאַ֖יִל6
  • לָאֵילִ֧ם6
  • וָאַ֖יִל5
  • הָאָֽיִל׃4
  • אֵילֵ֣י3
  • אֵילִ֥ים3

and 79 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 36

  • rams42
  • the ram25
  • a ram21
  • and a ram16
  • for the ram13
  • and rams7
  • for the rams6
  • pillars its6
  • and pillars its5
  • the rams5
  • [the] leaders of4
  • [the] ram of4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 17

  • noun · masculine plural43
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular26
  • noun · masculine singular22
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular16
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular16
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)11
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural9
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural7
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural7
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpa · 43
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 26
  • HNcmsa · 22
  • HC/Ncmsa · 16
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 16
  • HNcmsc · 11
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 9
  • HC/Ncmpa · 7
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 7
  • HNcmpc · 6
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 6
  • HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms · 5

All 187, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis5 occurrences
Exodus23 occurrences
Leviticus22 occurrences
Numbers66 occurrences
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
1 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Kings1 occurrence
2 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles5 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Job1 occurrence
Psalms3 occurrences
Isaiah6 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel37 occurrences
Daniel8 occurrences
Micah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).