Weasel
we'-z'-l (choledh; compare Arabic khuld, "mole-rat"): (1)
Choledh is found only in Lev 11:29, where it stands first in
the list of eight unclean "creeping things that creep upon
the earth." the King James Version and the Revised Version
(British and American) agree in rendering choledh by
"weasel," and the Septuagint has gale, "weasel" or "mar...
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-General scriptures concerning
Le 11:29...
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(choled) occurs only in Le 11:29 in the list of unclean
animals; but the Hebrew word ought more probably to be
translated "mole." Moles are common in Israel....
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(Heb. holedh), enumerated among unclean animals (Lev. 11:29).
Some think that this Hebrew word rather denotes the
mole (Spalax
typhlus) common in Israel. There is no sufficient
reason,
however, to depart from the usual translation. The
weasel tribe
are common also in Israel....
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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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These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse,
and the tortoise after his kind,...
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Weasel, Lev., xi, 29, must be regarded as a general name, probably designating, besides the weasel proper, the polecat and ichneumon, all very common in the Holy Land....
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