Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5895
עַיִר
ayirah'-yeer
colt
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻayir
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5895is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5895
properly, a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass-colt
The King James renders it: (ass) colt, foal, young ass.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ayir is rendered "colt". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:1530 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
Genesis 32:15וַעְיָרִ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- donkeys3
- a male donkey1
- and a male donkey of1
- and male donkeys1
- and the donkeys1
- donkey his1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים1
- וְעַ֥יִר1
- וַעְיָרִ֖ם1
- עַ֖יִר1
- עִיר֔וֹ1
- עֲיָרִ֔ים1
- עֲיָרִ֜ים1
- עֲיָרִ֑ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Genesis
two uses
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
- וַעְיָרִ֖םva'yarimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and male donkeys
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.
- עִיר֔וֹironoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: donkey his
Judges
two uses
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.
- עֲיָרִ֔יםʾayarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: donkeys
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
- עֲיָרִ֑םʾayarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: donkeys
Job
one use
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- וְעַ֥יִרveayirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a male donkey of
Isaiah
two uses
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.
- עֲיָרִ֜יםʾayarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: donkeys
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- וְהָעֲיָרִ֗יםvehaayarimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the donkeys
Zechariah
one use
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.
- עַ֖יִרʾayirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a male donkey
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.