עַיִר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5895

male ass — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

male ass tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַ֫יִר: n.m. male ass tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Gn 32:16 male ass (young and vigorous);—pl. וַעְיָרִם Gn 32:16 (E); sf. עִירֹה 49:11 (poem; ‖ בְּנִי אֲתֹנוֹ); cstr. עַיִר פֶּרֶא (Ges§ 131 c N. 2; or appos. KöSynt.§ 333 s Di al.) Jb 11:12 wild ass’s colt; pl. עֲיָרִים, for riding Ju 10:4a (v 4 b see ii. עִיר), עֲיָרִם 12:14, sg. abs. עַיִר Zc 9:9; עֲיָרִים for carrying Is 30:6 Qr (Kt עורים), עֲיָרִם for tillage v 24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (20 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: male donkeys (3); a male donkey (2); donkey (1).

In the verses

Job 11:12 · tree →

וְאִ֣ישׁ נָ֭בוּב יִלָּבֵ֑ב וְעַ֥יִר פֶּ֝֗רֶא אָדָ֥ם יִוָּלֵֽד׃

Word for word: and a.person hollow he.will.get.understanding and a.male.donkey of.a.wild.donkey a.human.being it.will.be.born

JPS 1917: But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

Genesis 32:16 · tree →

גְּמַלִּ֧ים מֵינִיק֛וֹת וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם שְׁלֹשִׁ֑ים פָּר֤וֹת אַרְבָּעִים֙ וּפָרִ֣ים עֲשָׂרָ֔ה אֲתֹנֹ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַעְיָרִ֖םעֲשָׂרָֽה׃

Word for word: camels milking and young their thirty cows forty and bulls ten female.donkeys twenty and male.donkeys ten

JPS 1917: thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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