Ayir עַ֫יִר

Ayir (Hebrew עַ֫יִר, Strong's H5895) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “colt”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Ayir, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 32:15
  Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
• 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: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.

Judges

• 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.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.
• 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.He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

Job

• Job 11:12
  For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Isaiah

• 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.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.
• 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.The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Zechariah

• 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.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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).