Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5909
עַכְבָּר
akbarak-bawr'
mouse
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻakbâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5909is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5909
a mouse (as nibbling)
The King James renders it: mouse.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
akbar is rendered "mouse". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:29The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
Leviticus 11:29וְהָעַכְבָּ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the mouse2
- mice of2
- and mice of1
- mice your1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עַכְשׁוּב | akshub | viper | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עַכְבְּרֵ֣י2
- וְהָעַכְבָּ֖ר1
- וְהָעַכְבָּ֑ר1
- וְעַכְבְּרֵ֣י1
- עַכְבְּרֵיכֶ֗ם1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2mp
Leviticus
one use
The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
- וְהָעַכְבָּ֖רvehaakhbarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the mouse
1 Samuel
four uses
“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.
- עַכְבְּרֵ֣יʾakhbereinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mice of
Make 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.
- עַכְבְּרֵיכֶ֗םʾakhbereikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: mice your
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.
- עַכְבְּרֵ֣יʾakhbereinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mice 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.
- וְעַכְבְּרֵ֣יveakhbereiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and mice of
Isaiah
one use
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
- וְהָעַכְבָּ֑רvehaakhbarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the mouse
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.