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1. Pered. Not mentioned until David's time, when Israel became more familiar with horses (; ; ). Used for riding only by persons of rank (). As breeding from different species was forbidden (), mules must have been imported. An Egyptian monument from Thebes in British Museum represents them yoked to a chariot. The people of Togarmah (Armenia) brought them to Tyre for barter (). They were part of the "presents" from "the kings of the earth" to Solomon, "a rate year by year" (-24). In these ways they came into Palestine (). In ; . the mules on the return from Babylon amounted to 245; but the horses about three times as many, 736; so that the mule was then, as we find in the Greek classics, rarer and more precious.
2. Rechesh is translated "mules," ; ; but in "DROMEDARIES" , "swift beasts." (See CAMEL.)
3. Yeemim. translated rather "Anah that found the hot springs," so the Vulgate version; the Samaritan text has "the Emim." Callirrhoe in the wady Zerka Maein is thought to be Anah's hot springs.