Roe in Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted
for
food (Deut. 14:5; comp. Deut. 12:15, 22; 15:22; 1
Kings 4:23),
noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form
(2 Sam.
2:18; 1 Chr. 12:8; Cant. 2:9; 7:3; 8:14).
The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great
numbers in
Israel. "Among the gray hills of Galilee it is still
'the roe
upon the mountains of Bether,' and I have seen a
little troop of
gazelles feeding on the Mount of Olives close to
Jerusalem
itself" (Tristram).
The Hebrew word ('ayyalah) in Prov. 5: 19 thus
rendered (R.V.,
"doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the
mountain goat, the
ibex. (See 1 Sam. 24:2; Ps. 104:18; Job 39:1.)
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