Mouse:
(the corn‐eater.) The name of this animal occurs in Leviticus 11:29; 1 Samuel 6:4-5; Isaiah 66:17. The Hebrew word is in all probability generic, and is not intended to denote any particular species of mouse. The original word denotes a field‐ravager, and may therefore comprehend any destructive rodent. Tristram found twenty‐three species of mice in Palestine. It is probable that in 1 Samuel 6:5, the expression "the mice that mar the land" includes and more particularly refers to the short‐tailed field‐mice (Arvicola agrestis, Flem.) which cause great destruction to the corn‐lands of Syria.
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