2974 - yaal

Strong's Concordance

Original word: יָאַל
Transliteration: yaal
Definition (short): willing
Definition (full): to show willingness, be pleased, determine, undertake (to do anything)

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to show willingness, be pleased, determine, undertake (to do anything)
NASB Translation: agreed (1), determined (1), persisted (3), please (2), pleased (2), pleased* (1), tried (1), undertook (1), ventured (2), willing (5).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root (probably rather the same as ya'al through the idea of mental weakness); properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) To undertake as an act of volition -- assay, begin, be content, please, take upon, X willingly, would.

see HEBREW ya'al

KJV: And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
NASB: And Abraham replied, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.
KJV: And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
NASB: And he said, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy it on account of the twenty."
KJV: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
NASB: Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
KJV: On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
NASB: Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,
KJV: And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
NASB: Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan!