English

Proper noun

Jael

1. A female given name.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Judges 5:24-26::

     Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

Related terms

• Yael

Translations