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Jael , in the Bible, heroine of the time of Deborah. She murdered Sisera, her guest.

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Jael in the Bible (Judges 4:17) the woman who killed the commander of the Canaanite army, Sisera; when he was in flight after a defeat, she sheltered him in her tent, but when he was asleep she killed him by hammering a nail into his temples.

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