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
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ya.el · Jael · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Judges 4:17 · יָעֵ֔לHowbeit 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 4:18 · יָעֵל֮And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.Judges 4:21 · יָעֵ֣לThen Jael Heber’s wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.Judges 4:22 · יָעֵל֙And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.Judges 5:6 · יָעֵ֔לIn the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways.Judges 5:24 · יָעֵ֕לBlessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.