1. אַ֫יִל
terebinth
The corpus record — Hebrew
וְאַ֣יִל
ayil · n.m
terebinth
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 196 · 6.39/10k
Senses
2. אַ֫יִל
leader, chief
3. אַ֫יִל
projecting pillar, pilaster
4. אַ֫יִל
ram
5. אַיִל
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree
Attestations
- וְ/אַ֣יִל Genesis 15:9 (BHS)
- אַ֔יִל Genesis 22:13 (BHS)
- הָ/אַ֔יִל Genesis 22:13 (BHS)
- וְ/אֵילֵ֥י Genesis 31:38 (BHS)
- וְ/אֵילִ֥ים Genesis 32:15 (BHS)
- אֵילֵ֣י Exodus 15:15 (BHS)
6 of 196 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.