H3278: יָעֵל
Yâʻêl · pronounced yaw-ale' · “Jael”
Definition
Jael, a Canaanite
KJV translates it as: Jael.
Word origin: the same as H3277 (יָעֵל);
Extended definition
§ Jael = "mountain goat"
the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed the general Sisera as he slept by driving a peg through his temples into the ground
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3278 is translated
- jael ×6
Bible verses with H3278 (Yâʻêl)
Yâʻêl appears in 6 verses.
- Judges 4:17
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet 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.
- Judges 4:18
And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
- Judges 4:21
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
- Judges 4:22
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
- Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
- Judges 5:24
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.