Ja'ala
[many Jad'la] (Heb. Yaala', יִעֲלָא, ibex; Sept. Ιεαήλ v.r. Ι᾿ελήλ) one of the Nethinim ("servants of Solomon") whose descendants (or perhaps a place whose former inhabitants) returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel (Ne 7:58); called in the parallel passage (Ezr 2:56) by the equivalent [the final א or ה by Chaldaeism] name JAALAH (יִעֲלָה, Septo Ι᾿ελά). C. ante 53G.
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