{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2974",
  "lemma": "יָאַל",
  "transliteration": "yâʼal",
  "definition": "properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) to undertake as an act of volition",
  "kjv": "assay, begin, be content, please, take upon, [idiom] willingly, would.",
  "occurrences": 19,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[יָאַל] vb. only Hiph. shew willingness, be pleased, determine, undertake to do anything (and do it)"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:27",
      "text": "Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:31",
      "text": "He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 2:21",
      "text": "Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 1:5",
      "text": "Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 7:7",
      "text": "Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 17:12",
      "text": "Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:27",
      "text": "Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:35",
      "text": "but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 17:11",
      "text": "The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/17?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 19:6",
      "text": "So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=6"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2974",
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}