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# foal

noun (a foal, foals); verb (foal, foals, foaled, foaling)

«foal» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A foal is a baby horse, donkey or zebra. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#m1)
2. When a mare foals, she gives birth to a foal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on animals and their young, a foal can stand and walk within hours of birth; on farms and in stories foals frolic in fields. Phrases: «a newborn foal», «the mare and her foal», «in foal» (pregnant).

### Examples

- The foal stood up on wobbly legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x1)
- The mare and her foal grazed in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x2)
- A foal can walk soon after it is born. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x3)
- The zebra foal stayed close to its mother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x4)
- The mare foaled during the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x5)
- The foal had long, thin legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x6)
- A young male foal is a colt, and a young female is a filly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x7)
- ‘Dost thou see anything now?’ said the Foal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Pronounced to rhyme with «goal». Related: mare (mother), stallion (father), colt (young male), filly (young female). Do not confuse with «fowl» (birds) or «foul».

## In Jewish tradition

It is a young donkey or camel in Jacob's gifts and blessing.

**Interpretation.** Jacob's gift to Esau was a large peace-offering of animals. Judah's blessing, with a foal tied to the vine, is read as a picture of plenty.

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foal/#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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foal/#x2)
- Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy king cometh unto thee, he is triumphant, and victorious, lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass. (Prophets ZEC.9.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foal/#x3)

### Note

Countable. Pronounced to rhyme with «goal». Related: mare (mother), stallion (father), colt (young male), filly (young female). Do not confuse with «fowl» (birds) or «foul».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «foal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«foal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/foal.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «foal» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«foal» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/foal.html) on Mova free.