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Roe
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
or ROE or ROEBUCK. Υaalah , "chamois" (Proverbs 5:19) or ibex, the female of the wild goat. Τsebi (masculine), tsebiah (feminine), from whence Τabitha (Greek Dorkas ), "loving and beloved": Acts 9:36. The beautiful antelope or gazelle, the Αntelope dorcas and Αntelope Αrabica . 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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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Roe'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/r/roe.html. 1949.
