Strong's Definition
from 3276; an ibex (as climbing)
KJV Usage: wild goat
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יָעֵל (ya.el) — Wildgoats'.
§ mountain goat
יָעֵל (ya.el) — goat. mountain goat
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · יַעֲלָה
Wild Animals
ibex, wild goat, mountain goat = fairly large wild goat, with adults being about ninety centimeters high at the shoulder; for most of the year its color is grayish but it turns browner in winter; males have thick long horns over 130 centimeters in length which curve backwards in a semicircle; the horns of the females are much slimmer and shorter, reaching a length of only about 40 centimeters; only the last few centimeters of the horns are smooth, the rest being ringed with ridges; these animals live in small herds in the mountains and prefer cliffs and crags, where they live off the bushes that grow on the ledges; ► clean animal, so may be eaten
noun m
Names of Landforms
Collocation: צוּרֵי הַיְּעֵלִים
Rocks of Wild Goats = rocks; ◄ located near En-Gedi; ► one of the places where David and his men were hiding for Saul
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[יָעֵל] n.[m.] mountain-goat base