BRAY brā (נָהַק, H5640). Bray is the distinctive call of ass, donkey, mule, and horse. Its two exclusive Biblical references occur in Job. In his distress Job reproached his friends, declaring there was good reason for his rash words (Job 6:3), otherwise he would not have cried out in agony. He illustrates this in a parabolic question, “Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?” (6:5). Later, he compared “A senseless, a disreputable brood” who “make sport” of him to wild desert asses. He says, “Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together” (30:7).