Animals

יָעֵל Ibex

Every verse in which this word stands — 4 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

Land animalGematria 110×4 in TanakhKosherFirst appearance:

The ya'el — the high crags are theirs in Tehillim 104, and David hides by the Rocks of the Ibexes at Ein Gedi. Mishlei's 'graceful ya'alah' is the feminine, counted with this row.

1 Samuel 24:3שמואל א כד:ג

וַיִּקַּח שָׁאוּל שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים אִישׁ בָּחוּר מִכָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיֵּלֶךְ לְבַקֵּשׁ אֶת־דָּוִד וַֽאֲנָשָׁיו עַל־פְּנֵי צוּרֵי הַיְּעֵלִֽים

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

Psalms 104:18תהלים קד:יח

הָרִים הַגְּבֹהִים לַיְּעֵלִים סְלָעִים מַחְסֶה לַֽשְׁפַנִּֽים

The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.

Proverbs 5:19משלי ה:יט

אַיֶּלֶת אֲהָבִים וְֽיַעֲלַת־חֵן דַּדֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּךָ בְכָל־עֵת בְּאַהֲבָתָהּ תִּשְׁגֶּה תָמִֽיד

A lovely hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; With her love be thou ravished always.

Job 39:1איוב לט:א

הֲיָדַעְתָּ עֵת לֶדֶת יַעֲלֵי־סָלַע חֹלֵל אַיָּלוֹת תִּשְׁמֹֽר

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

Quick answers

What is the Hebrew word for ibex?

Ibex in Hebrew is יעל, with a gematria of 110 in the standard method.

How many times is the ibex mentioned in the Tanakh?

The word stands 4 times in the Tanakh, first at 1 Samuel 24:3.

A spelling is not a word. The bare letters יעל stand 8 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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