a.yir denotes a young donkey, shown in riding, work, and figurative comparisons in the supplied verses.

The attested use denotes a young donkey or colt: plural forms occur among animals owned or ridden, while singular forms occur in descriptions of a donkey’s young and in a comparison to one.

1. Young donkey in animal and riding contexts · dominant

   Plural forms occur in accounts of sons riding these animals in Judges 10:4 and Judges 12:14, while Isaiah 30:24 places them with oxen and donkeys that work the ground. Singular construct forms occur in Genesis 49:11 and Job 11:12, where the APB renders clauses about a donkey’s colt and a man born like a colt of a wild donkey; in Zechariah 9:9, the singular absolute form stands in the clause rendered “upon a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

   Genesis 49:11Job 11:12Judges 10:4Judges 12:14Isaiah 30:24Zechariah 9:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “colt” or “colts,” including “a colt of a wild donkey” in Job 11:12 and “a colt, the foal of a donkey” in Zechariah 9:9. Its broader animal wording in some verses cannot by itself isolate the term’s exact English rendering.