The meaning of Mouse; Mice in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

mous, mis ('akhbar; Septuagint mus, "mouse"; compare Arabic 'akbar, "jerboa" not 'akbar, "greater"; compare also proper noun, 'akhbor, "Achbor" (Genesis 36:38 f.; I Chronicles 1:49; also II Kings 22:12, II Kings 22:14; Jeremiah 26:22; Jeremiah 36:12)): The word occurs in the list of unclean "creeping things" (Leviticus 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 (I Samuel 6:4-18), and in the phrase, "eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse" (Isaiah 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.

Alfred Ely Day

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