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Strong's #5895: `ayir (pronounced ah'-yeer)

from 5782 in the sense of raising (i.e. bearing a burden); properly, a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass-colt:--(ass) colt, foal, young ass.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ayir

1) he-ass, male ass

Part of Speech: noun masculine

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



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Genesis 32:15: "twenty she asses, and ten foals."
Genesis 49:11: "Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments"
Judges 10:4: "that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair"
Judges 12:14: "nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel"
Job 11:12: "though man be born like a wild ass's colt."
Isaiah 30:6: "they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches"
Isaiah 30:24: "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which"
Zechariah 9:9: "upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."









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