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# colt

«colt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a young male horse, especially one under four years old** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural colts)

### meaning for a pupil

A colt is a young male horse, especially one under four years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Jacob's blessing of Judah, the ass's colt is tied to the vine, a sign of rich plenty. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a picture of the plenty of Judah's land and the coming of the king, which some link to the Messiah. In the primary lessons: in tales and poems a colt is a lively young horse that runs and kicks in the fields.

### examples

- thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. (Torah GEN.32.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x1)
- Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes; (Torah GEN.49.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x2)
- But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man. (Writings JOB.11.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x3)
- And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years. (Prophets JDG.12.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x4)
- And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. (Prophets JDG.10.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x5)
- The colt ran across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x6)
- The farmer's colt kicked up its heels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x7)
- We watched the colts gallop through the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/#x8)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [(32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1015/)
- [But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.274/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «colt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/colt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.