| Title: | A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy) |
| Notice: | BABYNAMES is now on-line and writable! Enjoy... |
| Moderator: | OASS::BURDEN_D |
| Created: | Tue Feb 13 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri May 30 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 996 |
| Total number of notes: | 7139 |
My wife has an unusual first name: Jael (pronounced like jail).
It is from the Bible (Judges) and has an interesting story behind
it.
I have heard of very few others with that name, none which was
pronounced the same; the others were pronounce Jay-el.
Jael has two brothers and one sister. All of their names, both
first and middle are Biblical; the first names all start with A,
the middle names with A, and their last name starts with M, which
makes them all JAM's.
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| 311.1 | Just curious | EDUHCI::WARREN | Tue Oct 11 1988 15:40 | 7 | |
What _is_ the story behind Jael's name?
And what are her siblings' names?
-Tracy
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| 311.2 | Don't go to Sleep | PTOMV5::FULTON | It's all just ones and zeros! | Tue Oct 11 1988 17:17 | 19 |
Well, its been a while, but I will relate what I remember.
It seems there was an enemy of the state named Sisera (I believe)
who was trying to hide from the authorities. He came to Jael (Jay-el)
and asked for refuge. She took him in and fed him and instructed
him to roll up in a rug to hide. When he went to sleep, she drove
a tent stake through his temple. (My father warned me not to go
to sleep.)
Sibling's names:
Jael Ann
Joel Aaron
Joy Allison
Jason Andrew
Ken
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| 311.3 | GENRAL::REAVES | Mon Oct 31 1988 18:16 | 5 | ||
A friend of mine has a little girl by the name of Jael. It is
pronounced Ji-el, with a soft J sound.
Cathy
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| 311.4 | PTOMV4::FULTON | It's all just ones and zeros! | Tue Nov 08 1988 14:02 | 1 | |
That may be the hebrew pronunciation. Can anybody confirm? | |||||
| 311.5 | Yaeli as in Israeli... | JEREMY::RIVKA | Wed Nov 09 1988 03:09 | 4 | |
The hebrew pronunciation is ya-el.Infact all the Yael I know (mind
you it's quite popular here) spell it with a "Y" (yael).
Rivka.
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