Hart
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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(Heb. 'ayal), a stag or male deer. It is ranked among the
clean
animals (Deut. 12:15; 14:5; 15:22), and was commonly
killed for
food (1 Kings 4:23). The hart is frequently alluded to
in the
poetical and prophetical books (Isa. 35:6; Cant. 2:8,
9; Lam.
1:6; Ps. 42:1)....
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ayal. The male of the stag, Cervus Duma. Resorting to the
mountains (Song of Solomon 8:14); sure-footed there (2
Samuel 22:34; Habakkuk 3:19). Monogamous and constant in
affection (Proverbs 5:19). In Psalm 42:1 the verb is
feminine; the hind therefore, not the hart, is meant; her
weakness intensifies her thirst. The emblem of activity
(Isaiah...
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Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy
gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the
unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and
as of the hart....
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As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God....
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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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Hart and Hind. - Either the fallow-deer, still occasionally found in the Holy Land, or the red deer, now extinct, or the deer generally. It has afforded many illustrations to time Biblical writers and poets, especially by its fleetness (Song of Songs 2:9; Isaiah 35:6), its surefootedness [Ps. xvii (Hebr., xviii), 34; Hab., iii, 19], its affection (...
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