Jael

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jael
     mountain-goat, the wife of Heber the Kenite (Judg. 4:17-22).
     When the Canaanites were defeated by Barak, Sisera, the captain
     of Jabin's army, fled and sought refuge with the friendly tribe
     of Heber, beneath the oaks of Zaanaim. As he drew near, Jael
     invited him to enter her tent. He did so, and as he lay wearied


     on the floor he fell into a deep sleep. She then took in her
     left hand one of the great wooden pins ("nail") which fastened
     down the cords of the tent, and in her right hand the mallet, or
     "hammer," used for driving it into the ground, and stealthily
     approaching her sleeping guest, with one well-directed blow
     drove the nail through his temples into the earth (Judg. 5:27).
     She then led Barak, who was in pursuit, into her tent, and
     boastfully showed him what she had done. (See {SISERA}; {DEBORAH}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jael, he that ascends; a kid