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So the Mishna interprets choled (Leviticus 11:29), as meaning an animal that glides or slips away. So Septuagint and Vulgate But Bochart takes it as related to the Arabic chuld, "the mole"; chephar is the more usual Hebrew for the mole (Isaiah 2:20). The choled was unclean.


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Fausset, Andrew Robert M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'weasel' Fausset's Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Fausset's; 1878.

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