A wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity (Neh. 7:58).

(wild she-goat). Bene-Jaala were among the descendants of “Solomon’s slaves” who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:58) (B.C. before 536.) The name also occurs as Ja-alah.