פֶּרֶדpered

mule (2 Samuel 18:9; 2 Samuel 13:29; 1 Kings 10:25; Ezra 2:66; Nehemiah 7:68)

Pronunciation: peh'-red · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6505

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 13:29 So at Absalom’s signal they murdered Amnon. Then the other sons of the king jumped on their mules and fled.
  • 2 Samuel 18:9 During the battle, Absalom happened to come upon some of David’s men. He tried to escape on his mule, but as he rode beneath the thick branches of a great tree, his hair got caught in the tree. His mule kept going and left him dangling in the air.
  • 1 Kings 10:25 Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
  • 1 Kings 18:5 Ahab said to Obadiah, “We must check every spring and valley in the land to see if we can find enough grass to save at least some of my horses and mules.”
  • 2 Kings 5:17 Then Naaman said, “All right, but please allow me to load two of my mules with earth from this place, and I will take it back home with me. From now on I will never again offer burnt offerings or sacrifices to any other god except the Lord.
  • 1 Chronicles 12:40 And people from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. Vast supplies of flour, fig cakes, clusters of raisins, wine, olive oil, cattle, sheep, and goats were brought to the celebration. There was great joy throughout the land of Israel.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).