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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