אַ֫יִל
a.yil
ram
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
SupportedThe Hebrew word אַ֫יִל (a.yil) has a specific and consistent meaning as a "ram." With 156 occurrences in the Bible, it is one of the most frequently used words for this type of animal. The usage of אַ֫יִל spans a range of contexts, from natural settings where rams are mentioned alongside other animals, to cultural and symbolic representations of strength and leadership. This suggests that the word has both literal and figurative significance. Given its frequency and diverse applications, the word אַ֫יִל is likely an important semantic anchor in Hebrew language and biblical culture.
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Occurrences in Scripture
156 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on Yahweh’s altar.
2 Chronicles 29:22So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:32The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Ezra 8:35The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Ezra 10:19They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Ezekiel 45:23The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
Ezekiel 45:24He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:4The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;
Ezekiel 46:5and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:6On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.
Ezekiel 46:7He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Job 42:8Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Exodus 29:15“You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
Exodus 29:16You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
Exodus 29:17You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Psalms 66:15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats.
Psalms 114:4The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
Psalms 114:6You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
Isaiah 1:11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 34:6Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 60:7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
Jeremiah 51:40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Ezekiel 46:11“ ‘ “In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 27:21“ ‘ “Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants.
Ezekiel 34:17“As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
Ezekiel 39:18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Ezekiel 43:23When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.
Ezekiel 43:25“Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.
Daniel 8:3Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Daniel 8:4I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
Daniel 8:6He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
Daniel 8:7I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Daniel 8:7I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Daniel 8:7I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Daniel 8:7I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Daniel 8:20The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
Micah 6:7Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Genesis 15:9He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 22:13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 22:13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 31:38“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Exodus 29:18You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Leviticus 8:18He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Leviticus 8:18He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Leviticus 8:20He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
Exodus 25:5rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
Exodus 26:14You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
Exodus 29:1“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
Exodus 29:3You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.