Mole
mol ((1) tinshemeth, the King James Version "mole," the
Revised Version (British and American) "chameleon";
Septuagint aspalax = spalax, "mole," Vulgate (Jerome's Latin
Bible, 390-405 A.D.) talpa, "mole" (Lev 11:30); (2) choledh,
English Versions of the Bible "weasel"; Septuagint gale,
"weasel" or "pole-cat"; compare Arabic khuld, "mole-rat"
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-General scriptures concerning
Le 11:30; Isa 2:20...
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1. Tinshemeth. Le 11:30 It is probable that the animals
mentioned with the tinshemeth in the above passage denote
different kinds of lizards; perhaps, therefore, the chameleon
is the animal intended.
2. Chephor peroth is rendered "moles" in Isa 2:20 (The
word means burrowers, hole-diggers, and may designate any of
the small animals, as rats a...
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Heb. tinshameth (Lev. 11:30), probably signifies some
species of
lizard (rendered in R.V., "chameleon"). In Lev.
11:18, Deut.
14:16, it is rendered, in Authorized Version, "swan"
(R.V.,
"horned owl").
The Heb. holed (Lev. 11:29), rendered "weasel," was
probably
the mole-rat. The true mole (Talpa Europoea) is not
found in
Israel. The mole...
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tinshemeth. Rather "chameleon", the inflating animal, as it
inflates its body; from nasham "to breathe."(See CHAMELEON.)
The lung when filled with air renders its body semi-
transparent; from its power of abstinence it was fabled to
live on air (Leviticus 11:30). In Leviticus 11:18 it is "the
ibis," an unclean bird. Of the tree lizard, Dendrosa...
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And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
snail, and the mole....
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Mole. - Two Hebrew words are thus rendered, The first, tînshéméth (Leviticus 11:30), would, according to good authorities, rather signify the chameleon; with the second, haphárperôth (Isaiah 2:20), some burrowing animal is undoubtedly intended, The mole of Syria is not the common mole of Europe, Talpa europaea, but a Blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus)...
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