Mule
פֶּ֫רֶדStrong’s H6505pered (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 13:29And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
- 2 Samuel 18:9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
- 1 Kings 10:25And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
- 1 Kings 18:5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
- 2 Kings 5:17And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
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.]
- A quadruped of a mongrel breed, usually generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes between a horse and a she-ass.
- 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.