Bible word study

Ayil (Strong’s H352): Meaning in the Bible

Ayil (אַיִל) is the Hebrew word numbered H352 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree. In the King James Bible it is translated mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram.

• Original wordאַיִל
• Transliterationʼayil
• Pronunciationah'-yil
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH352
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as H193;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Ayil appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Ayil (H352) stands behind 185 English renderings in 171 verses across 18 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Numbers (66), Ezekiel (35), Exodus (23).

How the King James Bible renders Ayil, by count

• ram90 of 185 (49 percent)
• rams66 of 185 (36 percent)
• posts17 of 185 (9 percent)
• post4 of 185 (2 percent)
• mighty3 of 185 (2 percent)
• trees2 of 185 (1 percent)

Three places to read Ayil

• Genesis 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
• Numbers 7:45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
• 1 Chronicles 29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Ayil in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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