Mouse
mous, mis (`akhbar; Septuagint mus, "mouse"; compare Arabic
`akbar, "jerboa" not 'akbar, "greater"; compare also proper
noun, `akhbor, "Achbor" (Gen 36:38 f; 1 Ch 1:49; also 2 Ki
22:12,14; Jer 26:22; 36:12)): The word occurs in the list of
unclean "creeping things" (Lev 11:29), in the account of the
golden mice and tumors (the King James Versi...
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-Forbidden as food
Le 11:29
-Used as food
Isa 66:17
-Images of
1Sa 6:4,5,11,18...
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(the corn-eater). The name of this animal occurs in Le 11:29;
1Sa 6:4,5; Isa 66:17 The Hebrew word is in all probability
generic, and is not intended to denote any particular species
of mouse. The original word denotes a field-ravager, and may
therefore comprehend any destructive rodent. Tristram found
twenty-three species of mice in Israel. I...
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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 tha...
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'akbar. The "jumping mouse," Dipus jaculus Egyptius
(Gesenius); or as the Arabic farah, any small rodent
(Tristram); the field mouse or vole, with larger head, shorter
ears and tail, and stouter form, than the house mouse; and the
long-tailed field mouse, Mus sylvaticus. The ravages of these
rodents among grain, etc., made the Philistines prop...
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They 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....
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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,...
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Mouse. - This word seems to be a general one, including the various rats, dormice, jerboas, and hamsters, about twenty-five species of which exist in the country....
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