ya.val denotes conducting or leading someone or something onward, including toward a destination, offering, or slaughter.

The verb denotes bringing or leading a person, animal, people, or offering onward to a stated destination or outcome. Its occurrences include being led to slaughter or burial, being led forth in peace, and actively leading people along a safe way.

1. Conducting or leading onward · dominant

   Hophal forms depict a subject being brought along: in Isaiah 53:7 the APB renders a lamb as “led to the slaughter,” while Jeremiah 11:19 similarly renders the speaker as a lamb “conducted to slaughter.” In Isaiah 55:12, the second-person plural Hophal form occurs as the people go out in joy and are “led forth in peace”; the Hiphil form in Jeremiah 31:9 has the speaker lead the returning people by streams of water in a straight way. The same movement toward a destination is visible when an offering is brought in Isaiah 18:7 and when the dead man is carried to graves in Job 21:32.

   Isaiah 53:7Jeremiah 11:19Isaiah 55:12Jeremiah 31:9Isaiah 18:7Job 21:32

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the movement with “conducted,” “led,” “led forth,” “carried,” and “brought.” Because it is a whole-verse translation, these renderings show the verse contexts rather than fixed English equivalents for every form.