פֶּ֫רֶד

2 Samuel 13:29 פִּרְדּ֖וֹ mule his

So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.

2 Samuel 18:9 הַפֶּ֗רֶד הַפֶּ֡רֶד וְהַפֶּ֥רֶד the mule, and the mule

Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

1 Kings 10:25 וּפְרָדִ֑ים and mules

Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

Here: Mules were royal mounts in Israel (David's mule in 1 Kgs 1:33, the king's sons in 2 Sam 13:29). Leviticus 19:19 forbade crossbreeding animals, so Israel had to import them, which made them prized.

1 Kings 18:5 וָפֶ֔רֶד and mule

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

2 Kings 5:17 פְּרָדִ֖ים mules

“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.

1 Chronicles 12:40 וּבַפְּרָדִ֣ים׀ and on <the> mules

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

2 Chronicles 9:24 וּפְרָדִ֑ים and mules

Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

Ezra 2:66 פִּרְדֵיהֶ֕ם mules their

They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

Here: The plural of pered, 'mule' (the cross between a donkey and a horse), with 'their' attached. It opens the second entry of the inventory, laid out the same way as the first.

Psalm 32:9 כְּפֶרֶד֮ like a mule

Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.

Here: 'Like a mule'. Placed side by side with 'like a horse' with no 'and' or 'or' between them, the two animals form one picture: a powerful animal that only goes where it is forced.

Isaiah 66:20 וּבַפְּרָדִ֜ים and on <the> mules

And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”

Here: Mules were valued riding animals in Israel and were associated with royalty (David's sons and Solomon ride mules).

Ezekiel 27:14 וּפְרָדִ֔ים and mules

The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

Zechariah 14:15 הַפֶּ֙רֶד֙ the mule

And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.