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colts

Meaning of “colts”

Young offspring of camels or asses.

Definition sources

Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-references
3 occurrences3 verses2 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 32:15

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “colts”

KJV PCE
Genesis 32:15
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 32:15 · retained source text

Thirtie milch camels with their colts, fortie kine, and ten bulles, twenty shee ashes, and ten foales.

Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 10:4 · retained source text

And hee had thirtie sonnes that rode on thirtie asse-colts, and they had thirtie cities, which are called Hauoth-Iair vnto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

1611 marginal noteOr, the villages of Iair.

Judges 12:14
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 12:14 · retained source text

And he had fourty sonnes, and thirtie nephewes, that rode on threescore and ten asse-colts: and he iudged Israel eight yeeres,

1611 marginal noteHeb. sonnes sonnes.

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Definition evidence

1 · Direct Scripture definition

Genesis 32:15; Judges 10:4; Judges 12:14

Genesis names milch camels with their colts; Judges twice names ass colts. The inherited assertion that all KJV claims here are young asses is false and is corrected without adding an unattested horse claim.

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