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Mole
Morrish Bible Dictionary
or 1. tinshemeth. An animal classed among the unclean, but it is not known definitely what animal is meant by the Hebrew word. It is probably the chameleon, which is adopted in the R.V. It is placed with the lizard and the snail. Leviticus 11:30 . In two places the same word is translated 'swan.' Leviticus 11:18; Deuteronomy 14:16 .
2. chapharperah. This is by most identified with the mole-rat, the spalax typhlus. It is very like a mole: it burrows under the earth and turns up mounds, but it is of a different order from the true mole. These mole-rats have been found in Palestine; they inhabit ruins and stone-heaps, and come out in the night. They may be well classed with the bats to which the idols will be cast in a future day. Isaiah 2:20 .
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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Mole'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/mbd/m/mole.html. 1897.
