H5895 עַיִר (ʻayir) ah'-yeer

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

colt

Strong's Definition

properly, a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass-colt

Derivation: from H5782 (עוּר) in the sense of raising (i.e. bearing a burden);

KJV Usage: (ass) colt, foal, young ass.

TWOT Reference: 1616a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) he-ass, male ass

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3688 G4454

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עַ֫יִר (a.yir) — colt. he-ass, male ass

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עַיִר (H5895)

noun m · עור

Domestic Animals | ≈ אֶלֶף · אָתֹון · חֲמֹור

young male donkey = young male donkey; ≈ possibly associated with liveliness and unruliness

GEN 32:16 · GEN 49:11 · JDG 10:4 · JDG 10:4 · JDG 12:14 · JOB 11:12 · ISA 30:6 · ISA 30:24 · ZEC 9:9

¹ GEN 49:11 MT-Q | MT-K עירו = עיר? ² JDG 10:4 read עִיר "town"

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עַ֫יִר n.m. male ass (young and vigorous) base

Bible Occurrences (8)

32:15 49:11

10:4 12:14

11:12

30:6 30:24

9:9

Genesis 32:15

30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.

Genesis 49:11

He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt... to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Judges 10:4

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons..., who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

Job 11:12

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Isaiah 30:6

[This is] the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion,... of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.