Mongoose

There is considerable disagreement about the meaning of the word choled. The root of the word may be a form related to a verb meaning “to dig". Those who accept this translate choled as either “mole” (which is not indigenous to the land of Israel) “mole rat” or “rat". However there is another more likely Semitic root for the word which means “to creep", or “wriggle". Those who accept this latter derivation translate choled as “weasel".