Bible Person
Meaning: ascending; a little doe or goat · Male · 2 cross references
Jaala is a Nethinim family or servant-house name listed among the returnees in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the service households that help sustain restored temple life after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:56.1
AI summary: Jaala matters because the cross references place the name among the temple-servant groups whose practical labor undergirds worship in the restored community. These brief entries widen the story of restoration beyond priests and governors to include the many families who carried daily responsibilities. Taken together, the material presents Jaala as a servant-house contributing to the operational reality of post-exilic sacred life.1
Central Figure
Jaala
Meaning: ascending; a little doe or goat
A wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity (Neh.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.