Occurrences
ʻayir occurs 8 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Judges (2), Job (1), Isaiah (2), Zechariah (1)
- Genesis 32:15 — Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals (וַעְיָרִ֖ם).
- Genesis 49:11 — Binding his foal (עִיר֔וֹ) 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 10:4 — And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts (עֲיָרִ֔ים), and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
- Judges 12:14 — And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts (עֲיָרִ֑ם): and he judged Israel eight years.
- Job 11:12 — For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt (וְעַ֥יִר).
- 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 (עֲיָרִ֜ים), and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
- Isaiah 30:24 — The oxen likewise and the young asses (וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים) that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
- 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 (עַ֖יִר) the foal of an ass.