HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5909
עַכְבָּר
akh.bar — mouse
mouse
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Mouse
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5907
עַכְבּוֹר
akh.bor — Achbor
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.38; father of: Baal-hanan (H1177) § Achbor = "mouse" 1) father of king Baal-hanan of Edom 2) son of Michaiah and contemporary of king Josiah of Judah
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H604
אֲנָקָה
a.na.qah — gecko
1) an unclean animal, ferret, shrewmouse, gecko 1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8353
μυγαλῆ
mugalē — a field-mouse
the shrew-mouse, field-mouse , Lat. mus araneus, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8367
μῦς
mus — a mouse
1. Lat. mus, a mouse, (Batrachomyomachia); μ. ἀρουραῖος the field-mouse , or the hamster , (Herdotus Historicus); μῦς πίσσας γεύεται, proverbial of one who is tempted to eat and finds himself caught, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) 2. a muscle of the body, Lat. musculus, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9512
τρώγλη
trōglē — a bore
a hole formed by gnawing, a mouse's hole , (Batrachomyomachia) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Historical dictionary entry
Heb. ‘akhbar, “swift digger”), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the Bedouins. It is said that no fewer than twenty-three species of this group (‘akhbar=Arab. ferah) of animals inhabit Palestine. God “laid waste” the people of Ashdod by the terrible visitation of field-mice, which are like locusts in their destructive effects (1 Sam. 6:4, 11, 18). Herodotus, the Greek historian, accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35) by saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields, and thus left the Assyrians helpless. (See SENNACHERIB.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.