עַיִרʻayir

male ass, (young and vigorous) (Genesis 32:16; Genesis 49:11; Job 11:12; Judges 10:4; Judges 12:14)

Pronunciation: ah'-yeer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5895

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 32:15 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
  • Genesis 49:11 He ties his foal to a grapevine, the colt of his donkey to a choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
  • Judges 10:4 His thirty sons rode around on thirty donkeys, and they owned thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are still called the Towns of Jair.
  • Judges 12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.
  • Job 11:12 An empty-headed person won’t become wise any more than a wild donkey can bear a human child.
  • Isaiah 30:6 This message came to me concerning the animals in the Negev: The caravan moves slowly across the terrible desert to Egypt— donkeys weighed down with riches and camels loaded with treasure— all to pay for Egypt’s protection. They travel through the wilderness, a place of lionesses and lions, a place where vipers and poisonous snakes live. All this, and Egypt will give you nothing in return.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).