Mouse
עַכְבָּרStrong’s H5909akhbar (akh-bar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Akhbar is the Hebrew word usually translated “mouse”, “mice of” and “mice your”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,”
Meaning
- Mouse
How it's translated
- and the mouse 2
- mice of 2
- mice your 1
- and mice of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- Leviticus 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 6:4Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
- 1 Samuel 6:5Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 6:11And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
- 1 Samuel 6:18And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
- Isaiah 66:17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
עַכְבָּר akhbar · mouse
mouse
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mouse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOUSE, noun
plural mice. [Latin mus; The Latin mus forms muris in the genitive, and the root is not obvious.]
- A small animal of the genus Mus, inhabiting houses.
- Among seamen, a knob formed on a rope by spun yarn or parceling.
All definitions and other forms of “mouse”
MOUSE, verb intransitive.
mouz. To catch mice.
MOUSE, verb transitive
mouz. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.