Roebuck in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
ROE or ROEBUCK. Yaalah, "chamois" (Proverbs 5:19) or ibex, the
female of the wild goat. Tsebi (masculine), tsebiah
(feminine), from whence Tabitha (Greek Dorkas), "loving and
beloved": Acts 9:36. The beautiful antelope or gazelle, the
Antelope dorcas and Antelope Arabica. Slender, graceful, shy,
and timid; the image of feminine loveliness (Song of Solomon
4:5; Song of Solomon 2:9; Song of Solomon 2:17; Song of
Solomon 8:14).
The eye is large, soft, liquid, languishing, and of
deepest black; image of swift footedness (2 Samuel 1:19; 2
Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8). Israel ate the gazelle in the
wilderness, and the flesh of flocks and herds only when
offered in sacrifice; but in Canaan they might eat the flesh,
"even as the gazelle" (Deuteronomy 12:15; Deuteronomy 12:22);
Isaac's venison was front it (Genesis 27). The valley of Gerar
and the Beersheba plains are still frequented by it. Egyptian
paintings represent it hunted by hounds.
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