Yael

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 410 words | Copyright

Yael ♀ Jewish: from a Hebrew word denoting a female wild goat. The name is borne in the Bible by a Kenite woman who killed Sisera, the Canaanite general and an enemy of the Israelites, by hammering a tent peg through his temples while he was asleep (Judges 4:17–22). It has remained extremely popular among Jews to the present day, but has achieved little currency among non-Jews.

Variant: Jael.

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