Hebrew noun (masculine) · H354
אַיָּל
ayalah-yawl'
deer
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼayâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H354is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H354
a stag or male deer
The King James renders it: hart.
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
ayal is rendered "deer". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 12:15But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
Deuteronomy 12:15וְכָאַיָּֽל׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the deers3
- and like the deer2
- a deer1
- from deer1
- like a deer1
- like deer1
- like the deer1
- the deer1
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.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- וְכָאַיָּֽל׃2
- אַיָּ֥ל1
- הָ֣אַיָּ֔ל1
- הָֽאַיָּלִ֑ים1
- הָאַיָּלִ֖ים1
- הָֽאַיָּלִ֔ים1
- כְּאַיָּ֗ל1
- כָּֽאַיָּל֙1
- כְּאַיָּלִים֙1
- מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
four uses
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
- וְכָאַיָּֽל׃vekhaaiyalconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the deer
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
- הָ֣אַיָּ֔לhaaiyalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the deer
the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
- אַיָּ֥לʾaiyalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a deer
Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
- וְכָאַיָּֽל׃vekhaaiyalconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the deer
1 Kings
one use
ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
- מֵֽאַיָּ֤לmeaiyalpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from deer
Psalms
one use
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
- כְּאַיָּ֗לkeaiyalpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a deer
Song of Solomon
three uses
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
- הָֽאַיָּלִ֑יםhaaiyalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the deers
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- הָאַיָּלִ֖יםhaaiyalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the deers
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
- הָֽאַיָּלִ֔יםhaaiyalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the deers
Isaiah
one use
Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- כָּֽאַיָּל֙kaaiyalpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the deer
Lamentations
one use
All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
- כְּאַיָּלִים֙keaiyalimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like deer
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.