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title: יָעֵל — mountain-goat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָעֵל (3277), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: mountain-goat. BDB 1906: mountain-goat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָעֵל

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«יָעֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mountain-goat** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3277 · **BDB:** יָעֵל

### Glosses

goats (1); of.mountain.goats (1); the.mountain.goats (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mountain-goat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3277/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

mountain-goat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3277/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mountain-goat (NH id.; 𝔗 יְעֵילָא, Syriac ܝܰܥܠܴܐ; Arabic وَعَلٌ, وَعْلٌ; Assyrian ya’ilu DlS 53 (but HptBAS i. 170, Jägerib. 465); Ethiopic ውዕላ v. HomNS 280)—Pl. יְעֵלִים ψ 104:18 (‖ שְׁפַנִּים); צוּרֵי הַיּ׳ 1 S 24:3; יַעֲלֵי־סָ֑לַע Jb 39:1 (‖ אַיָּלוֹת; cf. i. יַעֲלָה).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָעֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3277/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.1/)

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הֲיָדַ֗עְתָּ עֵ֭ת לֶ֣דֶת יַעֲלֵי־סָ֑לַע חֹלֵ֖ל אַיָּל֣וֹת תִּשְׁמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* do you.know? \[the\].time of.\[the\].bringing.forth of.mountain.goats of.rock \[the\].bringing.forth of.does do.you.watch?

*JPS 1917:* Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

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[Psalms 104:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.18/)

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הָרִ֣ים הַ֭גְּבֹהִים לַיְּעֵלִ֑ים סְ֝לָעִ֗ים מַחְסֶ֥ה לַֽשְׁפַנִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].mountains (the) high \[belong\].to the.mountain goats crags \[are\].a.refuge for the.rock badgers

*JPS 1917:* The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.

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