a.yil denotes a ram, appearing as an offering animal, flock animal, skin source, and visionary figure.

Across the supplied verses, the noun identifies rams in sacrificial instructions and offerings, among flocks and traded livestock, as the source of skins, and as the horned animal in Daniel’s vision. These settings show one consistent animal designation rather than separate lexical meanings.

1. Ram in ritual, flock, material, and vision contexts · dominant

   In Exodus 29:15 the singular form names the animal whose head Aaron and his sons touch, and Exodus 29:18 continues with the whole animal burned on the altar. Plural forms occur among livestock in 2 Kings 3:4 and in the phrase rendered “skins of rams” in Exodus 25:5; in Daniel 8:3 the singular animal stands by the river with two horns, and Daniel 8:20 identifies that seen animal with the kings of Madai and Persia.

   Exodus 29:15Exodus 29:182 Kings 3:4Exodus 25:5Daniel 8:3Daniel 8:20

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB regularly presents the noun as “ram” or “rams,” including offering animals, flock animals, and the animal in Daniel’s vision. In Exodus 25:5 it occurs within the rendered phrase “skins of rams”; the paraphrase is not word-aligned.