achbar · mouse

What it means

achbar (עַכְבָּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mouse”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A small rodent that the law counts among the unclean animals.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mice ×4
• mouse ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• Isaiah×1

• Leviticus 11:29

  And these shall be unclean for you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind,

• 1 Samuel 6:4

  And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall restore to him?” And they said, “By the number of the lords of the Philistines, five gold tumors and five gold mice, for one plague was on all of them and on your lords.

• 1 Samuel 6:5

  So you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that are destroying the land, and give glory to the Elohim of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.

• 1 Samuel 6:11

  And they put the ark of YHWH on the cart, and the chest and the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.

• 1 Samuel 6:18

  and the gold mice, by the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, from fortified city to unwalled village, and as far as the great Abel on which they set down the ark of YHWH; it is there to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

• Isaiah 66:17

  “Those who consecrate themselves and purify themselves for the gardens, after one in the middle, who eat the flesh of pigs and the detestable thing and the mouse, will come to an end together, declares YHWH.