Goat
יָעֵלStrong’s H3277yael (ya-el)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yael is the Hebrew word usually translated “mountain goats” and “mountain goats of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.”
Meaning
- § mountain goat
- Mountain goat
How it's translated
- the mountain goats 1
- mountain goats of 1
- to the mountain goats 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יָעֵל yael · Wildgoats'
§ mountain goat
יָעֵל yael · goat
mountain goat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “goat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GOAT, noun
An animal or quadruped of the genus Capra. The horns are hollow, turned upwards, erect and scabrous. Goats are nearly of the size of sheep, but stronger, less timid and more agile. They delight to frequent rocks and mountains, and subsist on scanty coarse food. The milk of the goat is sweet, nourishing and medicinal, and the flesh furnishes provisions to the inhabitants of countries where they abound.
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.