Chamois in Easton's Bible Dictionary
only in Deut. 14:5 (Heb. zemer), an animal of the deer or
gazelle species. It bears this Hebrew name from its
leaping or
springing. The animal intended is probably the wild
sheep (Ovis
tragelephus), which is still found in Sinai and in the
broken
ridges of Stony Arabia. The LXX. and Vulgate render
the word by
camelopardus, i.e., the giraffe; but this is an animal
of
Central Africa, and is not at all known in Syria.
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