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title: עַכְבָּר — mouse · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַכְבָּר (5909), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: mouse. BDB 1906: n.m. mouse. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַכְבָּר

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«עַכְבָּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mouse** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 5909 · **BDB:** עַכְבָּר

### Glosses

mouse (2); the.mice (2); mice (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַכְבָּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5909/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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,

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