ascending; a little doe or goat
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
JAALA (Neh_7:58) or JAALAH (Ezr_2:56).The name of a family of the sons of Solomons servants who returned with Zerubbabel; called in 1Es_5:33 Jeeli.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Neh_7:58; Ezr_2:56.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jaala
[many Jad'la] (Heb. Yaala', יִעֲלָא, ibex; Sept. Ιεαήλ v.r. Ι᾿ελήλ) one of the Nethinim (servants of Solomon) whose descendants (or perhaps a place whose former inhabitants) returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel (Neh_7:58); called in the parallel passage (Ezr_2:56) by the equivalent [the final א or ה by Chaldaeism] name JAALAH (יִעֲלָה, Septo Ι᾿ελά). C. ante 53G.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.