Mat 21:5 | RWP | e4.org | The daughter of Zion ( τη θυγατρ Σιων ). Jerusalem as in (daughter of my people). So Babylon ( ), daughter of Tyre for Tyre ( ). Riding ( επιβεβηκως ). Perfect active participle of επιβαινω , "having gone upon." And upon a colt the foal of an ass ( κα επ πωλον υιον υποζυγιου ). These words give trouble if κα is here taken to mean "and." Fritzsche argues that Jesus rode alternately upon each animal, a possible, but needless interpretation. In the Hebrew it means by common Hebrew parallelism "upon an ass, even upon a colt." That is obviously the meaning here in Matthew. The use of υποζυγιου (a beast of burden, under a yoke) for ass is common in the LXX and in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies p. 161).

‏ Matthew 21:5

The daughter of Zion ( τη θυγατρ Σιων ). Jerusalem as in Isa 22:4 (daughter of my people). So Babylon (Isa 47:1), daughter of Tyre for Tyre (Ps 45:12).

Riding ( επιβεβηκως ). Perfect active participle of επιβαινω, "having gone upon."

And upon a colt the foal of an ass ( κα επ πωλον υιον υποζυγιου ). These words give trouble if κα is here taken to mean "and." Fritzsche argues that Jesus rode alternately upon each animal, a possible, but needless interpretation. In the Hebrew it means by common Hebrew parallelism "upon an ass, even upon a colt." That is obviously the meaning here in Matthew. The use of υποζυγιου (a beast of burden, under a yoke) for ass is common in the LXX and in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies p. 161).