עַיִר
ʻayir · H5895 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Thing
- Ass, donkeyMammals140 verses
Meanings
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young male donkey
Young male donkey; possibly associated with liveliness and unruliness
ExamplesGenesis 32:15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Judges 10:4 And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair to this day.
Judges 12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel for eight years.
How it’s used In 7 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- פֶּרֶאwild donkey 1
- הוּhis 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- עֶשֶׂרten 1
- שִׁבְעִיםseventy 1
- שְׁלוֹשִׁיםthirty 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- עָבַדto serve, to work 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָלַדto bear 1
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָסַרto bind, to tie 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 5
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּתֵףshoulder, side 1
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
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- עַיִר denotes a young donkey or colt, as in Genesis 49:11's "He ties his foal to the vine" and Zechariah 9:9's king "mounted on a donkey, even on a colt."
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5895. ayir עַ֫יִר noun masculineGen 32:16 male ass (young and vigorous); — plural…
עַ֫יִר noun masculineGen 32:16 male ass (young and vigorous); — plural וַעְיָרִם Gen 32:16 (E); suffix עִירֹה Gen 49:11 (poem; || אֲתֹנוֺ בְּנִי); construct מֶּרֶא עַיִר (Ges§ 131c N. 2; or appositive KöSynt. § 333 s Di and others) Job 11:12 wild ass's colt; plural עֲיָרִים, for riding Jdg 10:4a (Jdg 10:4b see עִיר), עֲיָרִם), Jdg 12:14, singular absolute עַיִר Zec 9:9; עֲיָרִים for carrying Isa 30:6 Qr (Kt עורים), עֲיָרִם for tillage Isa 30:24.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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