Strong H5895עַ֫יִר

colt

Transliteration: ‛ayir
Pronunciation: ah'-yeer
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H5782 in the sense of raising (that {is} bearing a burden); properly a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass colt: - (ass) {colt} {foal} young ass.

Detailed definition

STEP sense: colt

Exact lexical definition: male ass

Part of speech: noun

BDB context: עַ֫יִר n.m . male ass (young and vigorous)

In the Bible

Strong H5895 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

colt4
ass2
foal2

First verses

Genesis 32:15
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, 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 in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth–jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Job 11:12
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Isaiah 30:24
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.