עַיִר
ayir · young donkey
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5895 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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ayir (עַיִר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “young donkey”.
Colt.
How to say it
a·yir
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
- A young, strong ass.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- donkeys ×4
- colt ×2
- cities ×1
- foal ×1
- foals ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 32:15
thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
- 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.
- Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities; them they call Havvoth-jair to this day; they are in the land of Gilead.
- Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty sons of his sons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.
- Job 11:12
And a hollow man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
- Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.
- Isaiah 30:24
And the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
- 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 1 more times.