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Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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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 R. Entry for 'Weasel'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​w/weasel.html. 1949.
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