ya.a.la is a proper name used in listings of a group identified as its sons.

The attested forms function as a proper name in parallel listings that identify “the sons of Jaalah,” alongside the sons of Darkon and Giddel.

1. Proper name in a family-group listing · dominant

   In Ezra 2:56, the proper noun form occurs in the phrase naming “the sons of Jaalah”; the APB renders the listing “the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, and the sons of Giddel.” Nehemiah 7:58 presents the same naming pattern and similarly renders “The sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, and the sons of Giddel.”

   Ezra 2:56Nehemiah 7:58

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across Ezra 2:56 and Nehemiah 7:58, the APB presents the name within the repeated phrase “the sons of Jaalah.” The verse is read as a whole, but both verses preserve the same group-listing context.