פִּרְדָּה

pirda · female mule

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6506 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

pirda (פִּרְדָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “female mule”.

She-mule: the female of the mule. It was the king's mount; to ride on David's mule showed whom he had chosen (1 Kings 1:33).

How to say it

pir·da

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The female of the cross between a donkey and a mare, a mount of kings.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • 1 Kings 1:33

    And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and set Solomon my son on the mule that is mine, and bring him down to Gihon.

  • 1 Kings 1:38

    So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

  • 1 Kings 1:44

    The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.