Lexical Definition

‎עַכְבָּר‎ ʻakbâr (ak-bawr') mouse ^H:N-M
probably from the same as ‎עַכָּבִישׁ‎ in the secondary sense of attacking

mouse.

• a mouse (as nibbling)

1) mouse

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎עַכְבָּר‎ noun masculine^{1Sam 6:4} mouse (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎עַכְבְּרָא‎; Syriac (in Lexicons) , (PS²²); Arabic plural mares murum Frey (Kam), compare also Hom^{As 338}; Arabic of jerboa RS^{K 302}; see Tristr^{NHB 122} FFP^{10 ff.}); — absolute ‎׳‎‎הָע‎ unclean Lev 11:29 (H), Isa 66:17 (compare RS^{Sem i. 275, 2nd ed. 293}); plural construct ‎עַכְבְּרֵי‎ ‎(ה)זָהָב‎ 1Sam 6:4; 1Sam 6:11; 1Sam 6:18 suffix ‎צַלְמֵי עַכְבְּרֵיכֶם‎ v1Sam 6:5.

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