Lexicon / H3278
יָעֵל
ya.el
  • Jael

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: Jael

A woman living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.4.17; married to Heber (H2268H)

§ Jael = "mountain goat"

the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed the general Sisera as he slept by driving a peg through his temples into the ground

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: Jael

יָעֵל n.pr.f . wife of Heber the Kenite slayer of Sisera