Word

πῶλος

pōlos · G4454 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Thing

Ass, donkeyMammals140 verses

Meanings

foal, colt

The young of a donkey ὄνος

Examples
Matthew 21:2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with it. Untie them and bring them to Me.
Matthew 21:5 “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.’”
Matthew 21:7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their cloaks on them; and He sat on the cloaks.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὄνοςdonkey 1

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

καθίζωto sit 2
υἱόςson 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

δέωto bind, to tie 3

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 4 groups

λύωto untie 3
εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
φέρωto bring, to carry, to bear 1
ἄγωto bring, to lead 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 5

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Foal, colt4.33: The noun names a young donkey. Matthew recounts Jesus's instructions before the triumphal entry: “you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me” (Matthew 21:2).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πωλου, ὁ (in classical Greek ἡ also) (Latinpullus, O. H. G. folo, English foal; perhaps…

πωλου, ὁ (in classical Greek ἡ also) (Latinpullus, O. H. G. folo, English foal; perhaps allied with παῖς; cf. Curtius, § 387);
1. a colt, the young of the horse: so very often from Homer down.
2. universally, a young creature: Aelian v. h. 4, 9; specifically, of the young of various animals; in the N. T. of a young ass, an ass's colt: Mt 21:2, Mt 21:5, Mt 21:7; Mk 11:2,(3 L marginal reading),4,5,7; Lk 19:30, Lk 19:33, Lk 19:35; Jn 12:15 (also in Geoponica); the Sept. several times for עַיִר; for יַעֲלָה a female ibex, Prov 5:19.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Animals12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0