Colt
עַ֫יִרStrong’s H5895ayir (a-yir)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayir is the Hebrew word usually translated “donkeys”, “male donkeys” and “donkey his”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- He-ass, male ass
How it's translated
- donkeys 3
- and male donkeys 1
- donkey his 1
- and a male donkey of 1
- and the donkeys 1
- a male donkey 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Judges 2
- Isaiah 2
- Job 1
- Zechariah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
- Genesis 49:11Binding 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 10:4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
- Judges 12:14And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
- Job 11:12For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
- Isaiah 30:6The 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.
Hebrew dictionary
עַ֫יִר ayir · colt
he-ass, male ass
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “colt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLT, noun
- The young of the equine genus of animals or horse kind.
- A young foolish fellow; a person without experience or stability.
All definitions and other forms of “colt”
COLT, verb intransitive
To frisk, riot or frolic, like a colt; to be licentious.
COLT, verb transitive
To befool.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.