Hart in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the male stag. The word denotes some member of the deer tribe either the fallow deer or the Barbary deer. The hart is reckoned among the clean animals, De 12:15; 14:5; 15:22 and seems from the passages quoted, as well as from 1Ki 4:23 to have been commonly killed for food.

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