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# פֶּרֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6505

**mule** — used 14 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

mule [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6505/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רֶד: n.m. mule [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6505/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 S 18:19 mule;—פ׳ abs. 2 S 18:9(×3) +, sf. פִּרְדּוֹ 13:29; pl. פְּרָדִים 1 K 10:25 +; פִּרְדֵיהֶם Ezr 2:66 = Ne 7:68 (van d. H.; Gi Baer in marg.);—mule, ridden by princes 2 S 13:29; in battle 18:9(×3); cf. (later, + horses, etc.) Zc 14:15; Is 66:20; royal gift 1 K 10:25 = 2 Ch 9:24; royal property 1 K 18:5; in trade of Tyre Ez 27:14; beast of burden, מַשָּׂא צֶמֶד פְּרָדִים 2 K 5:17 the load of a pair of mules, of earth, 1 Ch 12:40; property of returning exiles Ezr 2:66 = Ne 7:68; as refractory ψ 32:9 (in sim.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: mule (6); mules (6); a mule (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.14/#tree)

מִבֵּ֖ית תּוֹגַרְמָ֑ה סוּסִ֤ים וּפָֽרָשִׁים֙ וּפְרָדִ֔ים נָתְנ֖וּ עִזְבוֹנָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* from the.house of.Togarmah horses and horsemen and mules they.exchanged wares your

*JPS 1917:* They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules.

[Ezra 2:66](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.66/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.66/#tree)

סוּסֵיהֶ֕ם שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וְשִׁשָּׁ֑ה פִּרְדֵיהֶ֕ם מָאתַ֖יִם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* horses their seven hundred(s) thirty and six mules their two.hundred forty and five

*JPS 1917:* Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6505.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6505/): 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).