# H2974 יָאַל

יָאַל (yâʼal), Strong’s H2974: 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…

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*yâʼal* — 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.

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [יָאַל] vb. only Hiph. shew willingness, be pleased, determine, undertake to do anything (and do it)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 18:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=27) — Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
- [Genesis 18:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=31) — 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…
- [Exodus 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=21) — Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
- [Deuteronomy 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=5) — Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
- [Joshua 7:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=7) — Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of…
- [Joshua 17:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=12) — Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that…
- [Judges 1:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=27) — Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants…
- [Judges 1:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=35) — but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph…
- [Judges 17:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/17?v=11) — The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
- [Judges 19:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=6) — So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be…