Mole
פֵּרָהStrong’s H6512perah (pe-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Perah is the Hebrew word usually translated “moles”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;”
Meaning
- Mole
How it's translated
- moles 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פֵּרָה perah · mole
mole
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mole” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOLE, noun
- A spot, mark or small permanent protuberance on the human body, from which usually issue one or more hairs.
- [Latin mola.] A mass of fleshy matter of a spherical figure, generated in the uterus.
All definitions and other forms of “mole”
MOLE, noun
[Latin moles.]
- A mound or massive work formed of large stones laid in the sea by means of coffer dams, extended either in a right line or an arch of a circle before a port, which it serves to defend from the violent impulse of the waves; thus protecting ships in a harbor.
- Among the Romans, a kind of mausoleum, built like a round tower on a square base, insulated, encompassed with columns and covered with a dome.
MOLE, noun
A small animal of the genus Talpa, which in search of worms or other insects, forms a road just under the surface of the ground, raising the soil into a little ridge; from which circumstance it is called a mold-warp, or mold-turner. The mole has very small eyes.
MOLE, verb transitive
To clear of mole-hills. [Local.]
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.