Female mule
פִּרְדָּהStrong’s H6506pirdah (pir-dah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pirdah is the Hebrew word usually translated “mule of” and “mule”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king also 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:”
Meaning
- She-mule, mule
How it's translated
- mule of 2
- the mule 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 1:38So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:44And 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:
Hebrew dictionary
פִּרְדָּה pirdah · female mule
she-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.