Category:Mole

Mole

1. A mammal in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America

2. Golden mole - a southern African mammal, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles

3. Marsupial mole - an Australian mammal, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles

4. Mole - (melanocytic nevus), a benign tumor on human skin, usually with darker pigment

5. Mole (unit), the SI unit (symbol mol) used in chemistry for the amount of a chemical substance

6. Mole (sauce), a Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, other spices, and chocolate

7. Mole (espionage) - a spy who has worked his or her way into a country or organization

8. Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water

9. Mole - a tunnel boring machine

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Mole - Heb. tinshameth (Leviticus 11:30), probably signifies some species of lizard (rendered in R.V., "chameleon"). In Leviticus 11:18, Deuteronomy 14:16, it is rendered, in Authorized Version, "swan" (R.V., "horned owl"). The Heb. holed (Leviticus 11:29), rendered "weasel," was probably the mole-rat. The true mole (Talpa Europoea) is not found in Palestine. The mole-rat (Spalax typhlus) "is twice the size of our mole, with no external eyes, and with only faint traces within of the rudimentary organ; no apparent ears, but, like the mole, with great internal organs of hearing; a strong, bare snout, and with large gnawing teeth; its colour a pale slate; its feet short, and provided with strong nails; its tail only rudimentary." In Isaiah 2:20, this word is the rendering of two words haphar peroth, which are rendered by Gesenius "into the digging of rats", i.e., rats' holes. But these two Hebrew words ought probably to be combined into one (lahporperoth) and translated "to the moles", i.e., the rat-moles. This animal "lives in underground communities, making large subterranean chambers for its young and for storehouses, with many runs connected with them, and is decidedly partial to the loose debris among ruins and stone-heaps, where it can form its chambers with least trouble."