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ja'-a-la, ja-a'-la (ya`ala', meaning unknown, Ne 7:58) and (ya`alah, "mountain goat" (?), Ezr 2:56): The name of a family of returned exiles, "children of Solomon's servants" = "Jeeli" in 1 Esdras 5:33.