pe.red denotes a mule, appearing as a riding animal and among livestock, tribute, transport, and goods in the biblical verses supplied.

The supplied verses use the term for a mule: an animal ridden, counted or kept with other animals, brought with goods, used for transport, and named in figurative and judgment contexts. The same referent is shown in both singular and plural forms without evidence here for separate lexical senses.

1. Mule as an animal in varied settings · dominant

   The term names animals ridden in 2 Samuel 13:29 and 2 Samuel 18:9, where the APB renders the riders and the animal beneath Absalom as on a “mule.” It also occurs among horses, goods, or other animals: in 1 Kings 10:25 the APB lists “horses, and mules” among yearly gifts; in 2 Kings 5:17 it speaks of a load carried by “a pair of mules”; and in Psalm 32:9 it places a mule beside a horse in an admonition about bit and bridle.

   2 Samuel 13:292 Samuel 18:91 Kings 10:252 Kings 5:17Psalm 32:9Ezekiel 27:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the term as “mule” or “mules,” including animals for riding, transport, gifts, goods, and livestock. These renderings are confirmed by the clauses and supplied noun morphology rather than treated as a separate sense list.