Occurrences
ʼayâl occurs 11 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (4), 1 Kings (1), Psalms (1), Song of Songs (3), Isaiah (1), Lamentations (1)
- Deuteronomy 12:15 — Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart (וְכָאַיָּֽל).
- Deuteronomy 12:22 — Even as the roebuck and the hart (הָ֣אַיָּ֔ל) is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- Deuteronomy 14:5 — The hart (אַיָּ֥ל), and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
- Deuteronomy 15:22 — Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart (וְכָאַיָּֽל).
- 1 Kings 4:23 — Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts (מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל), and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
- Psalms 42:1 — As the hart (כְּאַיָּ֗ל) panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
- Song of Songs 2:9 — My beloved is like a roe or a young hart (הָֽאַיָּלִ֑ים): behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- Song of Songs 2:17 — Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart (הָאַיָּלִ֖ים) upon the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Songs 8:14 — Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart (הָֽאַיָּלִ֔ים) upon the mountains of spices.
- Isaiah 35:6 — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart (כָּֽאַיָּל֙), and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
- Lamentations 1:6 — And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts (כְּאַיָּלִים֙) that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.