aton · female donkey

What it means

aton (אָתוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “female donkey”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The female donkey, an animal ridden and used to carry loads.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• donkeys ×18
• donkey ×16

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Numbers×14
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×8
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram because of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male slaves, female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 45:23

  And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys carrying some of the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain, bread, and provisions for his father for the journey.

• Genesis 49:11

  Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washes his garment in wine and his robe in the blood of grapes.

• Numbers 22:21

  So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

• Numbers 22:22

  But the anger of Elohim burned because he was going, and the angel of YHWH took his stand in the road as an opponent to him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two young men were with him.

• Numbers 22:23

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH standing in the road, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road.

• Numbers 22:25

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH and pressed herself against the wall and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall; and he struck her again.

• Numbers 22:27

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH and lay down under Balaam; and Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with the stick.

• Numbers 22:28

  Then YHWH opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

• Numbers 22:29

  And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me! If only there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you!”

• Numbers 22:30

  And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

• Numbers 22:32

  And the angel of YHWH said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Look, I have come out as an opponent, because your way is reckless before me.

• Numbers 22:33

  And the donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely by now I would have killed even you and let her live.”

• Judges 5:10

  You who ride white donkeys, who sit on rugs, and who walk on the road, speak of it!

• 1 Samuel 9:3

  Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the young men with you, please, and get up, go, look for the donkeys.”

• 1 Samuel 9:5

  When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his young man who was with him, “Come, let us go back, or else my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and worry about us.”

• 1 Samuel 9:20

  As for the donkeys that were lost to you three days ago do not set your heart on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?”

• 1 Samuel 10:2

  When you go from me today, you will find two men by the tomb of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to look for have been found, and look, your father has given up the matter of the donkeys and is worried about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

• 1 Samuel 10:14

  And Saul’s uncle said to him and to his young man, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To look for the donkeys; and when we saw that they were nowhere to be found, we went to Samuel.”

• 1 Samuel 10:16

  And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him.

• 2 Kings 4:22

  She called to her husband and said, “Send me, please, one of the young men and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of Elohim and come back.”

• 2 Kings 4:24

  She saddled the donkey and said to her young man, “Drive and go; do not hold back the riding for me unless I tell you.”

• 1 Chronicles 27:30

  over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the female donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

• Job 1:3

  His livestock was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household of servants; and that man was greater than all the sons of the east.

• Job 1:14

  and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys grazing beside them,

• Job 42:12

  And YHWH blessed the end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

• Zechariah 9:9

  Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; shout, daughter of Jerusalem. Look, your king comes to you; righteous and saved is he, afflicted and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the son of donkeys.

And 6 more times.