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Achbor

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). Nelson and Sons. : Missing or empty |title= ( help ) Achbor ( עַכְבּוֹר , Standard Hebrew ʿAḫbor , Tiberian Hebrew ʿAḵbôr ) means "gnawing", and is therefore also used as the word for "mouse".1 There are at least two persons by this name in the Hebrew Bible .

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therefore also used as the word for "mouse"

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name that means "gnawing" and is

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