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Roe, Roebuck
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or ROE, ROEBUCK . 1 . zÄ•bî and zÄ•bîyyâh . See Gazelle 2 . ya‘ăl âh , Proverbs 5:19 , RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘ doe ’; see ‘Wild Goat’ in art. Goat. 3 . ‘ôpher , Song of Solomon 4:5; Song of Solomon 7:3 , AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘young roe,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘fawn.’ 4 . yachmûr (lit. ‘red’), Deuteronomy 14:5 , 1 Kings 4:23 , AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘ fallow deer ,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘roebucks.’ The true fallow-deer is the ’ayyâl or hart; see Hart. In the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] yachmûr is tr. [Note: translate or translation.] boubalos , the bubale; but it is much more probable that it is the roebuck ( Cervus capreolus ), still called the yahmur by some Arabs. It is a gazelle-like animal with three-branched upright horns.
E. W. G. Masterman.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Roe, Roebuck'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/r/roe-roebuck.html. 1909.
