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title: חֹלֶד — weasel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹלֶד (2467), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: weasel. BDB 1906: weasel. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹלֶד

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«חֹלֶד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **weasel** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2467 · **BDB:** חֹ֫לֶד

### Glosses

weasel (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

weasel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2467/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

weasel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2467/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] weasel (NH חוּלְדָּא; Arabic خُلْدٌ mole or blind-rat, or a species of rat; on format. v. LagBN 144)—weasel Lv 11:29 (Vrss Ki Thes al. v. especially Di; \>Saad Bö MV SS Lag l.c. mole).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹלֶד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2467/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.29/)

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וְזֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ הַטָּמֵ֔א בַּשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ הַחֹ֥לֶד וְהָעַכְבָּ֖ר וְהַצָּ֥ב לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and this to you \[is\].the unclean among the.swarming thing\[s\] \[which\] swarms on the earth the weasel and the mouse and the.great lizard to kind its

*JPS 1917:* And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds,

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