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title: עַיִר — male ass · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַיִר (5895), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: male ass. BDB 1906: n.m. male ass. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַיִר

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«עַיִר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **male ass** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 5895 · **BDB:** עַ֫יִר

### Glosses

male.donkeys (3); a.male.donkey (2); donkey (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

male ass [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5895/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. male ass [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5895/#m2)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַיִר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5895/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 11:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.12/)

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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.

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[Genesis 32:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.16/)

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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.

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