Bible dictionaries

Jaala

What Bible dictionaries say about “Jaala”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Jaala - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity (Neh. 7:58).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

ja'-a-la, ja-a'-la (ya`ala', meaning unknown, Ne 7:58) and (ya`alah, "mountain goat" (?), Ezr 2:56): The name of a family of returned exiles, "children of Solomon's servants" = "Jeeli" in 1 Esdras 5:33.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(wild she-goat). Bene-Jaala were among the descendants of "Solomons slaves" who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:58) (B.C. before 536.) The name also occurs as Ja-alah.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(wild goat). (Ezra 2:56)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith