# עַיִר (ayir)

Israeli respelling: a-yir. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5895. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass-colt

King James renderings: (ass) colt, foal, young ass.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ayir-h5895

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/15) — Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
- [Genesis 49:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 gr…
- [Judges 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/4) — And 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 t…
- [Judges 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Job 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/12) — For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
- [Isaiah 30:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 f…
- [Isaiah 30:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Zechariah 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; l…