Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3278
יָעֵל
Yaelyaw-ale'
Jael
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yâʻêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3278is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3278
Jael, a Canaanite
The King James renders it: Jael.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yael is rendered "Jael". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 4:17Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges 4:17יָעֵ֔ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Jael6
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יָעֵ֔ל2
- יָעֵל֮1
- יָעֵ֣ל1
- יָעֵל֙1
- יָעֵ֕ל1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)6HNpf
Judges
six uses
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- יָעֵ֔לyaelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jael
Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
- יָעֵל֮yaelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jael
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
- יָעֵ֣לyaelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jael
When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
- יָעֵל֙yaelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jael
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
- יָעֵ֔לyaelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jael
Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
- יָעֵ֕לyaelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jael
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.