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# עַכְבָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5909

**mouse** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mouse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5909/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַכְבָּר: n.m. mouse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5909/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 6:4 mouse (NH id.; Aramaic עַכְבְּרָא; Syriac (in Lexx) ܥܽܘܩܒܪܳܐ, ܐܰܓܒܪܳܐ (PS22); Arabic عَكَابِرُ pl. mares murum Frey (Kam.), cf. also HomAS 338; Arabic of jerboa RSK 302; v. TristrNHB 122 FFP10 ff.);—abs. הָע׳ unclean Lv 11:29 (H), Is 66:17 (cf. RSSem i. 275, 2nd ed. 293); pl. cstr. עַכְבְּרֵי (ה)זָהָב 1 S 6:4, 11, 18; sf. צַלְמֵי עַכְבְּרֵיכֶם v 5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mouse (2); the mice (2); mice (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּ אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־הָעֲגָלָ֑ה וְאֵ֣ת הָאַרְגַּ֗ז וְאֵת֙ עַכְבְּרֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב וְאֵ֖ת צַלְמֵ֥י טְחֹרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.put (et) the.ark of.Yahweh into the cart and (et) the box and (et) the.mice of.(the) gold and (et) the.images their.tumors their

*JPS 1917:* And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

[Leviticus 11:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.29/#tree)

וְזֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ הַטָּמֵ֔א בַּשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ הַחֹ֥לֶד וְהָעַכְבָּ֖ר וְהַצָּ֥ב לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and this to you \[is\].the unclean among the.swarming thing\[s\] \[which\] swarms on the earth the weasel and the mouse and the.great lizard to kind its

*JPS 1917:* And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5909.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5909/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).