Spotted
בָּרֹדStrong’s H1261barod (ba-rod)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Barod is the Hebrew word usually translated “mottled” and “dappled”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.”
Meaning
- Spotted, marked
How it's translated
- and mottled 2
- dappled 1
- and the dappled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Zechariah 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 6:6In contextThe black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
- Genesis 31:10And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
- Genesis 31:12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּרֹד barod · spotted
spotted, marked
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spotted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPOTTED, participle passive
Marked with spots or places of a different color from the ground; as a spotted beast or garment.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.