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# אָתוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H860

**she-ass** — used 34 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

she-ass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/860/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָתוֹן: n.f. she-ass she-ass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/860/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Gn 45:23 she-ass (Arabic أَتَانٌ, Aramaic אַתָּנָא, ܐܰܬܳܢܳܐ, Assyrian atânu)—אָתוֹן Nu 22:23 + 10 times; אֲתֹנְךָ Nu 22:30, 32; אֲתֹנוֹ Gn 49:11 + 2 times; pl. abs. אֲתֹנֹת Gn 12:16 + 2 times; אֲתֹנוֹת Ju 5:10 + 12 times; אֲתוֹנוֹת Jb 1:3; 42:12;—she-ass, as dam Gn 49:11 Zc 9:9; as property (constituting wealth) Gn 12:16; 32:16 Jb 1:3, 14; 42:12 cf. 1 Ch 27:30; so of the asses of Kish 8 times 1 S 9:3(×2), 5, 20; 10:2(×2), 14, 16; as beasts of burden Gn 45:23; for riding Ju 5:10 Nu 22:21, 22 2 K 4:22, 24; of Balaam’s ass 14 times Nu 22:21, 22, 23(×3), 25, 27(×2), 28, 29, 30(×2), 32, 33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: donkey (14); she-asses (8); female donkeys (5).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.10/#tree)

רֹכְבֵי֩ אֲתֹנ֨וֹת צְחֹר֜וֹת יֹשְׁבֵ֧י עַל־מִדִּ֛ין וְהֹלְכֵ֥י עַל־דֶּ֖רֶךְ שִֽׂיחוּ׃

*Word for word:* O.riders of.female.donkeys tawny O.\[you.who\].sit on garments and O.walkers on \[the\].road tell.out

*JPS 1917:* Ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit on rich cloths, and ye that walk by the way, tell of it;

[1 Chronicles 27:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.30/#tree)

וְעַל־הַ֨גְּמַלִּ֔ים אוֹבִ֖יל הַיִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑י וְעַל־הָ֣אֲתֹנ֔וֹת יֶחְדְּיָ֖הוּ הַמֵּרֹנֹתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the camels Obil the Ishmaelite and.\[was\] over the she-asses Jehdeiah the Meronothite

*JPS 1917:* and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/860.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/860/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).