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yāʿēl יָעֵל ‘Jael’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: the same as yāʿēl יָעֵל ‘goat’
Roots: יעל

yāʿēl pr n f pers
Jael = "mountain goat"
1) the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed the general Sisera as he slept by driving a peg through his temples into the ground

Mentioned in Judges 4:18, 4:17, 4:21, 5:24, 4:22, 5:6

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