Ram
אַ֫יִלStrong’s H0352ayil (a-yil)
Appears in 173 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayil is the Hebrew word usually translated “rams”, “ram” and “pillars its”. It appears in 173 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”
Meaning
- Ramram (as food) · ram (as sacrifice) · ram (skin dyed red, for tabernacle)
- Pillar, door post, jambs, pilaster
- Strong man, leader, chief
- Mighty tree, terebinth
How it's translated
- rams 42
- the ram 26
- a ram 21
- and a ram 16
- for the ram 13
- and rams 8
- for the rams 6
- pillars its 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 65
- Ezekiel 34
- Exodus 20
- Leviticus 19
- Isaiah 6
- 2 Chronicles 5
18 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:4In contextI saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
- Daniel 8:6In contextAnd he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
- Daniel 8:7In contextAnd I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
- Daniel 8:20In contextThe ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
- Genesis 15:9And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
- Genesis 22:13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
All 173 verses, by book
- Exodus 20
- 15:1525:526:1429:129:329:1529:1629:1729:1829:1929:2029:2229:2629:2729:3129:3235:735:2336:1939:34
- Numbers 65
- 5:86:146:176:197:157:177:217:237:277:297:337:357:397:417:457:477:517:537:577:597:637:657:697:717:757:777:817:837:877:8815:615:1123:123:223:423:1423:2923:3028:1128:1228:1428:1928:2028:2728:2829:229:329:829:929:1329:1429:1729:1829:2029:2129:2329:2429:2629:2729:2929:3029:3229:3329:3629:37
- Deuteronomy 1
- 32:14
- 1 Samuel 1
- 15:22
- 1 Kings 1
- 6:31
- Job 1
- 42:8
- Jeremiah 1
- 51:40
- Ezekiel 34
- 17:1327:2131:1131:1432:2134:1739:1840:940:1040:1440:1640:2140:2440:2640:2940:3140:3340:3440:3640:3740:3840:4840:4941:141:343:2343:2545:2345:2446:446:546:646:746:11
- Micah 1
- 6:7
Hebrew dictionary
אַ֫יִל ayil · ram
1) ram 1a) ram (as food) 1b) ram (as sacrifice) 1c) ram (skin dyed red, for tabernacle)
אַ֫יִל ayil · pillar
pillar, door post, jambs, pilaster
אַ֫יִל ayil · leader
strong man, leader, chief
אַ֫יִל ayil · terebinth
mighty tree, terebinth Aramaic equivalent: i.lan (אִילָן "tree" H0363)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ram” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAM, noun
[See the Verb.]
- The male of the sheep or ovine genus; in some parts of England called a tup.
- In astronomy, Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters on the 21st of March, or a constellation of fixed stars in the figure of a ram It is considered the first of the twelve signs.
- An engine of war, used formerly for battering and demolishing the walls of cities; called a battering-ram. [See Battering-ram.]
All definitions and other forms of “ram”
RAM, verb transitive
[Latin ramus, a branch that is a shoot or thrust. Heb. See Cram.]
- To thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive down or together; as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram piles into the earth.
- To drive, as with a battering ram
- To stuff; to cram.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.