Antelope
-Also called, FALLOW DEER, HART, HIND, ROEBUCK
-Designated among the ceremonially clean animals, to be eaten
De 12:15; 14:5
-Provided for Solomon's household
1Ki 4:23
-Fleetness of
2Sa 2:18; 1Ch 12:8; Pr 6:5; So 8:14; Isa 35:6
-Surefootedness of
2Sa 22:34
-Gentleness of
Pr 5:19
-Coloring of
Jer 14:5...
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terms used synonymously with ox, oxen, and properly a generic
name for horned cattle when a full age and fit for the plough.
It is variously rendered "bullock," Isa 65:25 "cow," Eze 4:15
"oxen," Ge 12:16 Kine is used in the Bible as the plural of
cow. In Isa 51:20 the "wild bull" ("wild ox" in De 14:5 ) was
possibly one of the larger species o...
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Deut. 14:5 (R.V., "Wild goat"); 1 Kings 4:23 (R.V.,
"roebucks").
This animal, called in Hebrew _yahmur_, from a word
meaning "to
be red," is regarded by some as the common fallow-
deer, the
Cervus dama, which is said to be found very
generally over
Western and Southern Asia. It is called "fallow"
from its
pale-red or yellow colour. Some in...
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dishon. A clean animal (Deuteronomy 14:5). A generic name for
the "white rumped (as pugarg means in Greek) antelope" of
northern Africa and Syria. The Septuagint has translated the
Hebrew by "pygarg"; living near the habitat of the pygarg they
were likely to know. The mohr kind is best known, 2 ft. 8 in.
high at the croup. The tail is long, wi...
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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 (Son...
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The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois....
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an'-te-lop (RV; the King James Version "wild ox," te'o (Dt
14:5), and "wild bull," to (Isa 51:20); orux (The Septuagint
in Codex Vaticanus has hos seutlion hemiephthon, literally,
"like a half-cooked beet-root"): The dorcas gazelle (Gazella
dorcas) is widely distributed in Syria, Israel and Arabia.
The recently discovered Merrill's gazelle (Ga...
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The word, first applied as a qualification to the gazelle, on account of the lustre and soft expression of its eye, has become the name of a genus of ruminant quadrupeds intermediate between the deer and the goat. Four species are mentioned in the Bible:
(1) the dîshon (D.V. pygarg; Deuteronomy 14:5), commonly identified with the antilope addax;
(...
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