Mule
And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in
these tents, as this plague....
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And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had
commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat
him up upon his mule, and fled....
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So 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....
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mul (peredh (1 Ki 10:25; 18:5; Ezr 2:66; Isa 66:20; Zec
14:15), the feminine pirdah (1 Ki 1:33,38,44), rekhesh,
"swift steeds," the King James Version "mules" (Est
8:10,14), 'achashteranim, "used in the king's service," the
King James Version "camels," the Revised Version margin
"mules" (Est 8:10,14), yemim, "hot springs," the King James
Vers...
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-Uses of
For royal riders
2Sa 13:29; 18:9; 1Ki 1:33
Ridden by phetic vision of the kingdom of Christ
Isa 66:20
As pack animals
2Ki 5:17; 1Ch 12:40
-Tribute paid in
1Ki 10:25
-Used in barter
Eze 27:14
-By the captivity in returing from Babylon
Ezr 2:66; Ne 7:68
-In war
Zec 14:15...
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a hybrid animal, the offspring of a horse and an ass. "The
mule is smaller than the horse, and is a remarkably hardy,
patient, obstinate, sure-footed animal, living, ordinarily,
twice as long as a horse." --McClintock and Strong's
Cyclopedia. It was forbidden to the Israelites to breed mules,
but sometimes they imported them. It would appear t...
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(Heb. pered), so called from the quick step of the animal or
its
power of carrying loads. It is not probable that the
Hebrews
bred mules, as this was strictly forbidden in the
law (Lev.
19:19), although their use was not forbidden. We
find them in
common use even by kings and nobles (2 Sam. 18:9; 1
Kings 1:33;
2 Kings 5:17; Ps. 32:9). The...
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1. Pered. Not mentioned until David's time, when Israel
became more familiar with horses (1 Chronicles 12:40; 2
Samuel 13:29; 2 Samuel 18:9). Used for riding only by
persons of rank (1 Kings 1:33). As breeding from different
species was forbidden (Leviticus 19:19), mules must have
been imported. An Egyptian monument from Thebes in British
Mus...
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Mule. - In spite of the enactment of the Law (Leviticus 19:19), the Israelites early in the course of their history possessed mules; these animals, in a hilly region such as the Holy Land, were for many purposes preferable to horses and stronger than asses; they were employed both for domestic and warlike use....
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