H354 - אַיָּל (ʼayâl)

H354 אַיָּל (ʼayâl) ah-yawl'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

deer

Strong's Definition

a stag or male deer

Derivation: an intensive form of H352 (אַיִל) (in the sense of ram);

KJV Usage: hart.

TWOT Reference: 45k

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) stag, deer, hart

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

stag, deer, hart

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אַיָּל ayâl BDB Definition: 1) stag, deer, hart Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: an intensive form of H352 (in the sense of ram) Same Word by TWOT Number: 45k Total KJV Occurrences: 11

Bible Occurrences (8)

12:15 12:22 14:5 15:22

4:23

42:1

35:6

1:6

Deuteronomy 12:15

But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

Deuteronomy 12:22

Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer;... both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

Deuteronomy 14:5

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Deuteronomy 15:22

Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean [may eat it] as [they would] a gazelle or a deer.

1 Kings 4:23

ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

Isaiah 35:6

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Lamentations 1:6

All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.