Lexicon
חֲמוֹר
cha.mor
H2543
H:N Hebrew

donkey

96
Occurrences
20
Books
Hebrew
Language

cha.mor denotes the animal used for riding, carrying loads, livestock holdings, and legal provisions in the supplied biblical verses.

The term consistently identifies the animal itself, whether listed among livestock and possessions, ridden or saddled for travel, used to carry people or goods, or named in laws concerning ownership, rest, injury, and recovery.

Senses in use

  1. The animal in travel, property, and law · dominant

    The noun names an animal that people saddle, ride, and load: in 1 Kings 13:13 the APB renders a command to saddle it and says the man mounted it, while in Genesis 42:26 it renders grain loaded on the plural animals. It also occurs among possessions and livestock in Genesis 24:35, and in Deuteronomy 22:4 the clause concerns a brother's animal fallen on the way and being raised up.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB normally presents the singular and plural forms as “donkey” and “donkeys,” including animals that are saddled, ridden, loaded, owned, or allowed to rest. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these English terms confirm the scenes without establishing finer distinctions for the lemma.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture