KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To utter the characteristic cry of an ass. Sense 2: To pound or crush in a mortar.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 6:5
Complete exact-word concordance
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe ouer his fodder?
1611 marginal noteHebr. at grasse.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him.
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1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
to pound in a mortar.
