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Strong's #2467 - חֹלֶד
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1) weasel, mole
1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
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2161) dlh (ההלד HhLD) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Age: A passing through a space or time. [from: lh- passing through]
Nm ) dlh (ההלד HhLD) - Age: A passing through a finite span of time or space. KJV (5): age, world, time - Strongs: H2465 (חֶלֶד)
gm) dlfh (ההולד HhWLD) - Hholed: An unknown animal that burrows in the ground. KJV (1): weasel - Strongs: H2467 (חֹלֶד)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
חֹלֶד m. a mole [“weasel, so called from its swift gliding motion, or from its gliding into holes; comp. Syr. ܚܠܰܕ to insinuate oneself. So Vulg., Targ. Jon., and so Talmud חולדה.”], Leviticus 11:29. (Syr. ܚܘܽܠܕܐܳ, Arabic خُلْدُ, كُلْدُ a mole). See Bochart, Hieroz. t.i.p. 1022. Oedmann, Verm. Sammlungen aus der Naturkunde, ii. p. 50.