Mouse, Mice
Mouse, Mice
mous, ms (, akhbar; Septuagint , mus, mouse; compare Arabic akbar, jerboa not ‘akbar, greater; compare also proper noun, , akhbor, Achbor (Gen 36:38; 1Ch 1:49; also 2Ki 22:12, 2Ki 22:14; Jer 26:22; Jer 36:12)): The word occurs in the list of unclean creeping things Lev 11:29, in the account of the golden mice and tumors (the King James Version and the American Revised Version margin emerods) sent by the Philistines 1Sa 6:4-18, and in the phrase, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse Isa 66:17. The cosmopolitan housemouse, Mus musculus, is doubtless the species referred to. The jerboa or jumping mouse, Arabic yarbu, is eaten by the Arabs of the Syrian desert, Northeast of Damascus. Possibly allied to akhbar is the Arabic akbar (generally in plural, ‘akabir), used for the male of the jerboa.