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What is a Mouse?
        MOUSE
        (the corn-eater). Tristram found twenty-three species of mice in Palestine. In Lev 11:29, and Isa 66:17 this word is doubtless used generically, including as unclean even the larger rat, jerboa, dormouse, and sandrat. Mice are often in the East nearly as destructive to the crops as locusts. They made great havoc in the fields of the Philistines after that people had taken the ark of the Lord. 1 Sam 6:4-5. In the twelfth century they destroyed the young sprouts of grain in some parts of Syria for four successive years and came near to producing a general famine, and they abound in those regions at the present day. A modern traveller, in speaking of Hamath, says: "The western part of its territory is the granary of Northern Syria, though the harvest never yields more than ten for one, chiefly in consequence of the immense numbers of mice, which sometimes wholly destroy the crops." MOWING means reaping with a sickle, for the heat dries up' the grass before it is high enough for the scythe. Ps 129:7.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'mouse' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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