Noah Webster's Dictionary 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. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia MARE mar (1) cucah, "steed," the King James Version "company of horses"; Septuagint he hippos, "mare" (Songs 1:9); (2) bene ha-rammakhim, "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 Songs 1:9 we find cucah, the feminine of cuc, "horse," and in Esther 8:10, bene ha-rammakhim is by some translated "sons of mares." See CAMEL; HORSE.

Multi-Version Concordance Mare (1 Occurrence) Song of Songs 1:9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages. (See NAS RSV NIV)