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Jaala, Jaalah, Ja-ala

ja'-a-la (ascending; a little doe or goat, wild she-goat)
RELATED: Babylon, Captivity, Zerubbabel

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A wild she-goat, One of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity ( Nehemiah 7:58 ).

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Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names

ascending; a little doe or goat

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Smith's Bible Dictionary

(1) (wild she-goat) Bene-Jaala were among the descendants of "Solomons slaves" who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. ( Nehemiah 7:58 ) (B.C. before 536.) The name also occurs as Ja-alah.

(2) (wild goat) ( Ezra 2:56 )

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ja'-a-la, ja-a'-la (ya'ala', meaning unknown, Nehemiah 7:58) and (ya'alah, "mountain goat" (?), Ezra 2:56):

The name of a family of returned exiles, "children of Solomon's servants" = "Jeeli" in 1 Esdras 5:33.

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