Word Study · Strong's H5909 · Hebrew
עַכְבָּר
akbar
ak-bawr'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻakbâr
“a mouse (as nibbling)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a mouse (as nibbling)
Rendered in the KJV as
mouse.
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- עַכְבְּרֵ֣י2
- וְהָעַכְבָּ֖ר1
- וְהָעַכְבָּ֑ר1
- וְעַכְבְּרֵ֣י1
- עַכְבְּרֵיכֶ֗ם1
How it is rendered · 5
- and the mouse2
- [the] mice of1
- and [the] mice of1
- mice of1
- mice your1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HC/Td/Ncmsa · 2
- HNcmpc · 2
- HC/Ncmpc · 1
- HNcmpc/Sp2mp · 1
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
1 Samuel4 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 6:4עַכְבְּרֵ֣יʾakhbereinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.here: mice of
- 1 Samuel 6:5עַכְבְּרֵיכֶ֗םʾakhbereikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluralMake images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.here: mice your
- 1 Samuel 6:11עַכְבְּרֵ֣יʾakhbereinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.here: [the] mice of
- 1 Samuel 6:18וְעַכְבְּרֵ֣יveakhbereiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.here: and [the] mice of