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Mule

פֶּ֫רֶדStrong’s H6505

pered (pe-red)

Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Pered is the Hebrew word usually translated “mule”, “mules” and “on mules”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

“And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.”
Zechariah 14:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mule
How it's translated
  • the mule 3
  • and mules 3
  • and on mules 2
  • mules their 2
  • mule his 1
  • and the mule 1
  • and mule 1
  • mules 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Samuel 2
  • 1 Kings 2
  • 2 Kings 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1
  • Ezra 1

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 13 verses, by book
2 Samuel 2
13:2918:9
1 Kings 2
10:2518:5
2 Kings 1
5:17
1 Chronicles 1
12:40
2 Chronicles 1
9:24
Ezra 1
2:66
Nehemiah 1
7:68
Psalms 1
32:9
Isaiah 1
66:20
Ezekiel 1
27:14
Zechariah 1
14:15
Hebrew dictionary

פֶּ֫רֶד pered · mule

mule

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “mule” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MULE, noun

[Latin mulus.]

  1. A quadruped of a mongrel breed, usually generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes between a horse and a she-ass.
  2. A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species of plant with the farin or fecundating dust of another.

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.