אַיָּל ayyal

Hebrew word for “deer” · Strong’s H354 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

stag, deer, hart

How it is translated

Glosses given for ayyal in context, with how often each is used:

• like deer 4
• deer 3
• deers 3
• like a deer 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 12 (2), Song of Solomon 2 (2), Deuteronomy 14 (1), Deuteronomy 15 (1), 1 Kings 4 (1), Psalms 42 (1), Song of Solomon 8 (1), Isaiah 35 (1), Lamentations 1 (1)

Forms

• האילים 3
• וכאיל 2
• כאיל 2
• האיל 1
• איל 1
• מאיל 1
• כאילים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ayyal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• צְבִי tsevi “beauty” 8
• עֹפֶר opher “fawn” 3
• דָּמָה damah “to resemble” 3
• יַחְמוּר yachmur “roebuck” 2
• דּוֹד dod “beloved” 3
• טָמֵא tame “unclean” 3
• טָהוֹר tahor “pure” 3
• אוֹ o “or” 3
• ךָּ ka “you” 3
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 3
• יָחְדָּו yachdav “together” 2
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 2

Key verses

The verses using ayyal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 12:15 — Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath…
• Deuteronomy 12:22 — Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
• Deuteronomy 14:5 — The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
• Deuteronomy 15:22 — Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
• 1 Kings 4:23 — Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
• Psalms 42:1 — [To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• Song of Solomon 2:9 — My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
• Song of Solomon 2:17 — Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
• Song of Solomon 8:14 — Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
• Isaiah 35:6 — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
• Lamentations 1:6 — And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.