Mare
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
(2): ( n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; - obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
mâr ((1) סוּסה , ṣūṣāh , "steed," the King James Version "company of horses"; Septuagint ἡ ἴππος , hē hı́ppos , "mare" ( Song of Solomon 1:9 ); (2) הרמּכים בּני , benē hā - rammākhı̄m , "bred of the stud," the King James Version and the Revised Version margin "young dromedaries" ( Esther 8:10 ); compare Arabic ramakat , "mare"): The word "mare" does not occur in English Versions of the Bible, but in Song of Solomon 1:9 we find ṣūṣāh , the feminine of ṣūṣ , "horse," and in Esther 8:10 , benē hā - rammākhı̄m is by some translated "sons of mares." See Camel; Horse .
