| 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 12:40 | 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 14:17 | 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 15:16 | 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 11:02 | 1 | |
| That may be the hebrew pronunciation. Can anybody confirm? | |||||
| 311.5 | Yaeli as in Israeli... | JEREMY::RIVKA | Wed Nov 09 1988 00:09 | 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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