Strong H3278יָעֵל
Jael
- Transliteration
- yâ‛êl
- Pronunciation
- yaw-ale'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Feminine) of a Person
Definition
The same as H3277; {Jael} a Canaanite: - Jael.
Meaning of the name
Jael = "mountain goat"
Detailed definition
A woman living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.4.17; married to Heber (H2268H)
In the biblical story
Jael
Wife of Heber; killed Sisera, the Canaanite commander.
Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, killed Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army, by driving a tent peg through his temple (Jdg.4.17-22; 5.24-27).
In the Bible
Strong H3278 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- jael6
First verses
- Judges 4:17Howbeit 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 4:18And 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 4:21Then 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 4:22And, 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 5:6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
- Judges 5:24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.