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# פִּרְדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6506

**she-mule** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

she-mule [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6506/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּרְדָּה: n.f. she-mule [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6506/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. she-mule;—פ׳ ridden by king 1 K 1:33, cstr. פִּרְדַּת הַמֶּלֶךְ v 38, 44.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the mule (2); mule (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 1:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.33/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לָהֶ֗ם קְח֤וּ עִמָּכֶם֙ אֶת־עַבְדֵ֣י אֲדֹנֵיכֶ֔ם וְהִרְכַּבְתֶּם֙ אֶת־שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה בְנִ֔י עַל־הַפִּרְדָּ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־לִ֑י וְהוֹרַדְתֶּ֥ם אֹת֖וֹ אֶל־גִּחֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the king to them take with you (et) the.servants your.lord(s) your and you.will.cause.to.ride (et) Solomon son my on the mule which \[belongs\].to me and you.will.take.down him to Gihon

*JPS 1917:* And the king said unto them: 'Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

[1 Kings 1:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.44/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח אִתּֽוֹ־הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ אֶת־צָד֨וֹק הַכֹּהֵ֜ן וְאֶת־נָתָ֣ן הַנָּבִ֗יא וּבְנָיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע וְהַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑י וַיַּרְכִּ֣בוּ אֹת֔וֹ עַ֖ל פִּרְדַּ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.has.sent with him the king (et) Zadok the priest and (et) Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the.son of.Jehoiada and the Kerethite\[s\] and the Pelethite\[s\] and they.have.caused.to.ride him on the.mule of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6506.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6506/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).