Definition
from H5782 in the sense of raising (i.e. bearing a burden); properly, a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass-colt
Traditional renderings: (ass) colt, foal, young ass.
Traditional renderings: (ass) colt, foal, young ass.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עַ֫יִר:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
8 total
- Genesis 32:15וַעְיָרִ֖ם · male donkeys…30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
- Genesis 49:11עִירֹה · his donkeyHe 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 10:4עֲיָרִ֔ים · donkeysHe 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 12:14עֲיָרִ֑ם · donkeysHe had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
- Job 11:12וְעַ֥יִר · than the coltBut a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- Isaiah 30:6עֲיָרִ֜ים · of donkeysThis 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 30:24וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים · and donkeysThe oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- Zechariah 9:9עַ֖יִר · a coltRejoice 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.